Cross Copy Network for Dialogue Generation

Changzhen Ji, Xin Zhou, Yating Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Changlong Sun, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao


Abstract
In the past few years, audiences from different fields witness the achievements of sequence-to-sequence models (e.g., LSTM+attention, Pointer Generator Networks and Transformer) to enhance dialogue content generation. While content fluency and accuracy often serve as the major indicators for model training, dialogue logics, carrying critical information for some particular domains, are often ignored. Take customer service and court debate dialogue as examples, compatible logics can be observed across different dialogue instances, and this information can provide vital evidence for utterance generation. In this paper, we propose a novel network architecture - Cross Copy Networks (CCN) to explore the current dialog context and similar dialogue instances’ logical structure simultaneously. Experiments with two tasks, court debate and customer service content generation, proved that the proposed algorithm is superior to existing state-of-art content generation models.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.149
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1900–1910
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.149
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.149
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Cite (ACL):
Changzhen Ji, Xin Zhou, Yating Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Changlong Sun, Conghui Zhu, and Tiejun Zhao. 2020. Cross Copy Network for Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1900–1910, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Cross Copy Network for Dialogue Generation (Ji et al., EMNLP 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.149.pdf
Optional supplementary material:
 2020.emnlp-main.149.OptionalSupplementaryMaterial.rar
Code
 jichangzhen/CCN