[thomk]

How is the context defined here? Certainly when you are first getting to know someone 60% of your dialogue is reasonable for questions. After you know someone, 60% feels high. Speaking from one humans perspective of course, I may be wrong. :)

Most conversations are based on a pretext that individuals understand. In fact, if someone entering a conversation doesn't know that pretext it could awkward for them. That's why most people enter a conversation by saying something neutral like 'hello' and not by saying 'wow is the food horrible here!'. You never know who is listening. You wouldn't greet your boss the same way you greet your mother for instance (in most cases).

The tl/dr question here is 'Do you take any precondition (like relationship) into account before the parties begin chatting?'

[stephenroller]

We limited the scope of our study to the PersonaChat dataset, which is a standard benchmark in dialogue. In PersonaChat, both participants are presented with Personas and asked to roleplay as that person. (e.g. "I love the beach; Horses are my favorite animal; I am on a diet now").

So we restrict ourselves to meeting someone for the first time and trying to learn about them and share a bit about ourselves.

The personas that were assigned to the bot and the human were both randomized (from a large, fixed set) and unseen in training data.

[contingencies]

That's really cool. So, do you have any hobbies?