ParlAI: A new software platform for dialog research

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Introduced ParlAI, a new open-source software platform for dialog research. ParlAI unifies dialog tasks and agents into a single, shared repository, facilitating the training and testing of dialog models. It includes over 20 public datasets across five categories: question answering, sentence completion, goal-oriented dialog, chit-chat dialog, and visual dialog. The platform features a standardized observation/action object format for agent communication and integrates with Mechanical Turk for data collection, training, and evaluation. Initial implementations include baseline agents and neural network models like end-to-end memory networks and attentive LSTM models.