@inproceedings{xu-etal-2022-corefdiffs,
title = "{C}oref{D}iffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations",
author = "Xu, Lin and
Zhou, Qixian and
Fu, Jinlan and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Ng, See-Kiong",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = oct,
year = "2022",
address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.38",
pages = "471--484",
abstract = "Knowledge-grounded dialog systems need to incorporate smooth transitions among knowledge selected for generating responses, to ensure that dialog flows naturally. For document-grounded dialog systems, the inter- and intra-document knowledge relations can be used to model such conversational flows. We develop a novel Multi-Document Co-Referential Graph (Coref-MDG) to effectively capture the inter-document relationships based on commonsense and similarity and the intra-document co-referential structures of knowledge segments within the grounding documents. We propose CorefDiffs, a Co-referential and Differential flow management method, to linearize the static Coref-MDG into conversational sequence logic. CorefDiffs performs knowledge selection by accounting for contextual graph structures and the knowledge difference sequences. CorefDiffs significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art by 9.5{\%}, 7.4{\%} and 8.2{\%} on three public benchmarks. This demonstrates that the effective modeling of co-reference and knowledge difference for dialog flows are critical for transitions in document-grounded conversation.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T CorefDiffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations
%A Xu, Lin
%A Zhou, Qixian
%A Fu, Jinlan
%A Kan, Min-Yen
%A Ng, See-Kiong
%S Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2022
%8 October
%I International Committee on Computational Linguistics
%C Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
%F xu-etal-2022-corefdiffs
%X Knowledge-grounded dialog systems need to incorporate smooth transitions among knowledge selected for generating responses, to ensure that dialog flows naturally. For document-grounded dialog systems, the inter- and intra-document knowledge relations can be used to model such conversational flows. We develop a novel Multi-Document Co-Referential Graph (Coref-MDG) to effectively capture the inter-document relationships based on commonsense and similarity and the intra-document co-referential structures of knowledge segments within the grounding documents. We propose CorefDiffs, a Co-referential and Differential flow management method, to linearize the static Coref-MDG into conversational sequence logic. CorefDiffs performs knowledge selection by accounting for contextual graph structures and the knowledge difference sequences. CorefDiffs significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art by 9.5%, 7.4% and 8.2% on three public benchmarks. This demonstrates that the effective modeling of co-reference and knowledge difference for dialog flows are critical for transitions in document-grounded conversation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.38
%P 471-484
Markdown (Informal)
[CorefDiffs: Co-referential and Differential Knowledge Flow in Document Grounded Conversations](https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.38) (Xu et al., COLING 2022)
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