Dataset Card for MMChat

Dataset Summary

MMChat is a large-scale dialogue dataset that contains image-grounded dialogues in Chinese. Each dialogue in MMChat is associated with one or more images (maximum 9 images per dialogue). We design various strategies to ensure the quality of the dialogues in MMChat.

MMChat comes with 4 different versions:

• mmchat : The MMChat dataset used in our paper.
• mmchat_hf : Contains human annotation on 100K sessions of dialogues.
• mmchat_raw : Raw dialogues used to construct MMChat. mmchat_lccc_filtered : Raw dialogues filtered using the LCCC dataset.

If you what to use high quality multi-modal dialogues that are closed related to the given images, I suggest you to use the mmchat_hf version. If you only care about the quality of dialogue texts, I suggest you to use the mmchat_lccc_filtered version.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

• dialogue-generation: The dataset can be used to train a model for generating dialogue responses.
• response-retrieval: The dataset can be used to train a reranker model that can be used to implement a retrieval-based dialogue model.

Languages

MMChat is in Chinese

MMChat中的对话是中文的

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Several versions of MMChat are available. For mmchat , mmchat_raw , mmchat_lccc_filtered , the following instance applies:

{
  "dialog": ["你只拍出了你十分之一的美", "你的头像竟然换了，奥"],
  "weibo_content": "分享图片",
  "imgs": ["https://wx4.sinaimg.cn/mw2048/d716a6e2ly1fmug2w2l9qj21o02yox6p.jpg"]
}

For mmchat_hf , the following instance applies:

{
  "dialog": ["白百合", "啊？", "有点像", "还好吧哈哈哈牙像", "有男盆友没呢", "还没", "和你说话呢。没回我"],
  "weibo_content": "补一张昨天礼仪的照片",
  "imgs": ["https://ww2.sinaimg.cn/mw2048/005Co9wdjw1eyoz7ib9n5j307w0bu3z5.jpg"],
  "labels": {
    "image_qualified": true, 
    "dialog_qualified": true, 
    "dialog_image_related": true
  }
}

Data Fields

• dialog (list of strings): List of utterances consisting of a dialogue.
• weibo_content (string): Weibo content of the dialogue.
• imgs (list of strings): List of URLs of images.
• labels (dict): Human-annotated labels of the dialogue.
• image_qualified (bool): Whether the image is of high quality.
• dialog_qualified (bool): Whether the dialogue is of high quality.
• dialog_image_related (bool): Whether the dialogue is related to the image.

Data Splits

For mmchat , we provide the following splits:

train	valid	test
115,842	4,000	1,000

For other versions, we do not provide the offical split. More stastics are listed here:

mmchat	Count
Sessions	120.84 K
Sessions with more than 4 utterances	17.32 K
Utterances	314.13 K
Images	198.82 K
Avg. utterance per session	2.599
Avg. image per session	2.791
Avg. character per utterance	8.521

mmchat_hf	Count
Sessions	19.90 K
Sessions with more than 4 utterances	8.91 K
Totally annotated sessions	100.01 K
Utterances	81.06 K
Images	52.66K
Avg. utterance per session	4.07
Avg. image per session	2.70
Avg. character per utterance	11.93

mmchat_raw	Count
Sessions	4.257 M
Sessions with more than 4 utterances	2.304 M
Utterances	18.590 M
Images	4.874 M
Avg. utterance per session	4.367
Avg. image per session	1.670
Avg. character per utterance	14.104

mmchat_lccc_filtered	Count
Sessions	492.6 K
Sessions with more than 4 utterances	208.8 K
Utterances	1.986 M
Images	1.066 M
Avg. utterance per session	4.031
Avg. image per session	2.514
Avg. character per utterance	11.336

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

other-weibo

This dataset is collected from Weibo. You can refer to the detailed policy required to use this dataset. Please restrict the usage of this dataset to non-commerical purposes.

Citation Information

@inproceedings{zheng2022MMChat,
  author    = {Zheng, Yinhe and Chen, Guanyi and Liu, Xin and Sun, Jian},
  title     = {MMChat: Multi-Modal Chat Dataset on Social Media},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
}

@inproceedings{wang2020chinese,
  title={A Large-Scale Chinese Short-Text Conversation Dataset},
  author={Wang, Yida and Ke, Pei and Zheng, Yinhe and Huang, Kaili and Jiang, Yong and Zhu, Xiaoyan and Huang, Minlie},
  booktitle={NLPCC},
  year={2020},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03946}
}

Contributions

Thanks to Yinhe Zheng for adding this dataset.