OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs

Seungwhan Moon, Pararth Shah, Anuj Kumar, Rajen Subba


Abstract
We study a conversational reasoning model that strategically traverses through a large-scale common fact knowledge graph (KG) to introduce engaging and contextually diverse entities and attributes. For this study, we collect a new Open-ended Dialog <-> KG parallel corpus called OpenDialKG, where each utterance from 15K human-to-human role-playing dialogs is manually annotated with ground-truth reference to corresponding entities and paths from a large-scale KG with 1M+ facts. We then propose the DialKG Walker model that learns the symbolic transitions of dialog contexts as structured traversals over KG, and predicts natural entities to introduce given previous dialog contexts via a novel domain-agnostic, attention-based graph path decoder. Automatic and human evaluations show that our model can retrieve more natural and human-like responses than the state-of-the-art baselines or rule-based models, in both in-domain and cross-domain tasks. The proposed model also generates a KG walk path for each entity retrieved, providing a natural way to explain conversational reasoning.
Anthology ID:
P19-1081
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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845–854
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1081
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1081
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Cite (ACL):
Seungwhan Moon, Pararth Shah, Anuj Kumar, and Rajen Subba. 2019. OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 845–854, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs (Moon et al., ACL 2019)
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OpenDialKG