d446: ParlAI – software framework for dialog research

Facebook introduces ParlAI, a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialog datasets: Parl.AI

ParlAI’s goal is to provide researchers:
– a unified framework for training and testing dialog models
– multi-task training over many datasets at once
– seamless integration of MTurk for data collection and evaluation

Over 20 tasks are supported in the first release, including popular datasets such as SQuAD, bAbI tasks, MCTest, WikiQA, WebQuestions, SimpleQuestions, WikiMovies, QACNN & QADailyMail, CBT, BookTest, bAbI Dialog tasks, Ubuntu Dialog, OpenSubtitles, Cornell Movie and VQA-COCO2014.