Lifelong Knowledge Learning in Rule-based Dialogue Systems
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One of the main weaknesses of current chatbots or dialogue systems is that they do not learn online during conversations after they are deployed. This is a major loss of opportunity. Clearly, each human user has a great deal of knowledge about the world that may be useful to others. If a chatbot can learn from their users during chatting, it will greatly expand its knowledge base and serve its users better. This paper proposes to build such a learning capability in a rule-based chatbot so that it can continuously acquire new knowledge in its chatting with users. This work is useful because many real-life deployed chatbots are rule-based.
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