Goal-Embedded Dual Hierarchical Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation

Yi-An Lai, Arshit Gupta, Yi Zhang


Abstract
Hierarchical neural networks are often used to model inherent structures within dialogues. For goal-oriented dialogues, these models miss a mechanism adhering to the goals and neglect the distinct conversational patterns between two interlocutors. In this work, we propose Goal-Embedded Dual Hierarchical Attentional Encoder-Decoder (G-DuHA) able to center around goals and capture interlocutor-level disparity while modeling goal-oriented dialogues. Experiments on dialogue generation, response generation, and human evaluations demonstrate that the proposed model successfully generates higher-quality, more diverse and goal-centric dialogues. Moreover, we apply data augmentation via goal-oriented dialogue generation for task-oriented dialog systems with better performance achieved.
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K19-1075
Volume:
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Mohit Bansal, Aline Villavicencio
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CoNLL
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SIGNLL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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798–811
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https://aclanthology.org/K19-1075
DOI:
10.18653/v1/K19-1075
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Yi-An Lai, Arshit Gupta, and Yi Zhang. 2019. Goal-Embedded Dual Hierarchical Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 798–811, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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