Generate, Delete and Rewrite: A Three-Stage Framework for Improving Persona Consistency of Dialogue Generation

Haoyu Song, Yan Wang, Wei-Nan Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Ting Liu


Abstract
Maintaining a consistent personality in conversations is quite natural for human beings, but is still a non-trivial task for machines. The persona-based dialogue generation task is thus introduced to tackle the personality-inconsistent problem by incorporating explicit persona text into dialogue generation models. Despite the success of existing persona-based models on generating human-like responses, their one-stage decoding framework can hardly avoid the generation of inconsistent persona words. In this work, we introduce a three-stage framework that employs a generate-delete-rewrite mechanism to delete inconsistent words from a generated response prototype and further rewrite it to a personality-consistent one. We carry out evaluations by both human and automatic metrics. Experiments on the Persona-Chat dataset show that our approach achieves good performance.
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2020.acl-main.516
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
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2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5821–5831
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.516
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.516
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Haoyu Song, Yan Wang, Wei-Nan Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, and Ting Liu. 2020. Generate, Delete and Rewrite: A Three-Stage Framework for Improving Persona Consistency of Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5821–5831, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Generate, Delete and Rewrite: A Three-Stage Framework for Improving Persona Consistency of Dialogue Generation (Song et al., ACL 2020)
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