Detecting out-of-scope (OOS) utterances is crucial in
task-oriented dialogue systems, but obtaining enough annotated OOS dialogues to train a binary classifier directly is
difficult in practice. Existing data augmentation methods
generate OOS dialogues automatically, but their performance usually depends on an external corpus. Herein we
propose SILVER, a self data augmentation method that
does not use external data. It improves the accuracy of
OOS detection (false positive rate: 90.5% → 47.4%).
Furthermore, SILVER successfully generates high-quality
in-domain (IND) OOS dialogues in terms of naturalness
(percentage: 8% → 68%) and OOS correctness (percentage: 74% → 88%), as evaluated by human workers.