The Schema-Guided Dialogue (SGD) dataset contains 18K multi-domain task-oriented
dialogues between a human and a virtual assistant, which covers 17 domains
ranging from banks and events to media, calendar, travel, and weather. The
language presents in the datset is only English. The SGD dataset provides a
challenging testbed for a number of tasks in task-oriented dialogue, including
language understanding, slot filling, dialogue state tracking and response
generation. For the creation of the SGD dataset, they developed a multi-domain
dialogue simulator that generates dialogue outlines over an arbitrary combination
of APIs, dialogue states and system actions. Then, they used a crowd-sourcing
procedure to paraphrase these outlines to natural language utterances. This novel
crowd-sourcing procedure preserves all annotations obtained from the simulator and
does not require any extra annotations after dialogue collection.
