META-GUI: Towards Multi-modal Conversational Agents on Mobile GUI
Liangtai Sun, Xingyu Chen, Lu Chen, Tianle Dai, Zichen Zhu, Kai Yu
Abstract
Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems have been widely used by mobile phone intelligent assistants to accomplish tasks such as calendar scheduling or hotel reservation. Current TOD systems usually focus on multi-turn text/speech interaction, then they would call back-end APIs designed for TODs to perform the task. However, this API-based architecture greatly limits the information-searching capability of intelligent assistants and may even lead to task failure if TOD-specific APIs are not available or the task is too complicated to be executed by the provided APIs. In this paper, we propose a new TOD architecture: GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system (GUI-TOD). A GUI-TOD system can directly perform GUI operations on real APPs and execute tasks without invoking TOD-specific backend APIs. Furthermore, we release META-GUI, a dataset for training a Multi-modal convErsaTional Agent on mobile GUI. We also propose a multi-model action prediction and response model, which show promising results on META-GUI. The dataset, codes and leaderboard are publicly available.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{sun-etal-2022-meta,
title = "{META}-{GUI}: Towards Multi-modal Conversational Agents on Mobile {GUI}",
author = "Sun, Liangtai and
Chen, Xingyu and
Chen, Lu and
Dai, Tianle and
Zhu, Zichen and
Yu, Kai",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.449/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.449",
pages = "6699--6712"
}