Dial2Desc: End-to-end Dialogue Description Generation

Understand

We first propose a new task named Dialogue Description (Dial2Desc).

• Unlike other existing dialogue summarization tasks such as meeting summarization, we do not maintain the natural flow of a conversation but describe an object or an action of what people are talking about.
• The Dial2Desc system takes a dialogue text as input, then outputs a concise description of the object or the action involved in this conversation.
• After reading this short description, one can quickly extract the main topic of a conversation and build a clear picture in his mind, without reading or listening to the whole conversation.