MEEP: An Open-Source Platform for Human-Human Dialog Collection and End-to-End Agent Training

TL;DR

MEEP is an open-source platform designed for collecting human-human dialog data and training end-to-end task-oriented dialog agents within a flexible, push-button environment, demonstrated through a trip destination assistant.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dialog platform that combines data collection and agent training with flexible utterance and API call capabilities.

Findings

Successful collection of human-human dialog corpora.

Effective training of end-to-end dialog agents.

Demonstration of a trip destination assistant application.

Abstract

We create a new task-oriented dialog platform (MEEP) where agents are given considerable freedom in terms of utterances and API calls, but are constrained to work within a push-button environment. We include facilities for collecting human-human dialog corpora, and for training automatic agents in an end-to-end fashion. We demonstrate MEEP with a dialog assistant that lets users specify trip destinations.