Myunghoon Kang, Dahyun Jung, Suhyune Son, Seonmin Koo, Changwoo Chun, Daniel Rim, Haeyoung Kwon, Yuna Hur, Heuiseok Lim. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.

Yoonna Jang, Suhyune Son, Jeongwoo Lee, Junyoung Son, Yuna Hur, Jungwoo Lim, Hyeonseok Moon, Kisu Yang, Heuiseok Lim. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2023.

Humans usually have conversations by making use of prior knowledge about a topic and background information of the people whom they are talking to. However, existing conversational agents and datasets do not consider such comprehensive information, and thus they have a limitation in generating the utterances where the knowledge and persona are fused properly. To address this issue, we introduce a call For Customized conversation (FoCus) dataset where the customized answers are built with the user's persona and Wikipedia knowledge. To evaluate the abilities to make informative and customized utterances of pre-trained language models, we utilize BART and GPT-2 as well as transformer-based models. We assess their generation abilities with automatic scores and conduct human evaluations for qualitative results. We examine whether the model reflects adequate persona and knowledge with our proposed two sub-tasks, persona grounding (PG) and knowledge grounding (KG). Moreover, we show that the utterances of our data are constructed with the proper knowledge and persona through grounding quality assessment.