Semantic Representation for Dialogue Modeling

Xuefeng Bai, Yulong Chen, Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang


Abstract
Although neural models have achieved competitive results in dialogue systems, they have shown limited ability in representing core semantics, such as ignoring important entities. To this end, we exploit Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) to help dialogue modeling. Compared with the textual input, AMR explicitly provides core semantic knowledge and reduces data sparsity. We develop an algorithm to construct dialogue-level AMR graphs from sentence-level AMRs and explore two ways to incorporate AMRs into dialogue systems. Experimental results on both dialogue understanding and response generation tasks show the superiority of our model. To our knowledge, we are the first to leverage a formal semantic representation into neural dialogue modeling.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-long.342
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
Venues:
ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4430–4445
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.342
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.342
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Cite (ACL):
Xuefeng Bai, Yulong Chen, Linfeng Song, and Yue Zhang. 2021. Semantic Representation for Dialogue Modeling. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4430–4445, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Semantic Representation for Dialogue Modeling (Bai et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.342.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.342.mp4
Code
 muyeby/AMR-Dialogue
Data
DailyDialogDialogRE