TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph
Zhitong Yang, Bo Wang, Jinfeng Zhou, Yue Tan, Dongming Zhao, Kun Huang, Ruifang He, Yuexian Hou
Abstract
Target-oriented dialog aims to reach a global target through multi-turn conversation. The key to the task is the global planning towards the target, which flexibly guides the dialog concerning the context. However, existing target-oriented dialog works take a local and greedy strategy for response generation, where global planning is absent. In this work, we propose global planning for target-oriented dialog on a commonsense knowledge graph (KG). We design a global reinforcement learning with the planned paths to flexibly adjust the local response generation model towards the global target. We also propose a KG-based method to collect target-oriented samples automatically from the chit-chat corpus for model training. Experiments show that our method can reach the target with a higher success rate, fewer turns, and more coherent responses.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.62
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 745–755
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.62
- DOI:
- Bibkey:
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhitong Yang, Bo Wang, Jinfeng Zhou, Yue Tan, Dongming Zhao, Kun Huang, Ruifang He, and Yuexian Hou. 2022. TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 745–755, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph (Yang et al., COLING 2022)
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- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.62.pdf
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- ConceptNet, ConvAI2, OTTers
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Ryu, Pum-Mo and
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Markdown (Informal)
[TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph](https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.62) (Yang et al., COLING 2022)
- TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph (Yang et al., COLING 2022)
ACL
- Zhitong Yang, Bo Wang, Jinfeng Zhou, Yue Tan, Dongming Zhao, Kun Huang, Ruifang He, and Yuexian Hou. 2022. TopKG: Target-oriented Dialog via Global Planning on Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 745–755, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.