Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue Policies

Sarah McLeod, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Bernd Kiefer


Abstract
This paper describes the use of Multi-Task Neural Networks (NNs) for system dialogue act selection. These models leverage the representations learned by the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) unit to enable robust initialization/bootstrapping of dialogue policies from medium sized initial data sets. We evaluate the models on two goal-oriented dialogue corpora in the travel booking domain. Results show the proposed models improve over models trained without knowledge of NLU tasks.
Anthology ID:
W19-5947
Volume:
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
September
Year:
2019
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Stockholm, Sweden
Editors:
Satoshi Nakamura, Milica Gasic, Ingrid Zukerman, Gabriel Skantze, Mikio Nakano, Alexandros Papangelis, Stefan Ultes, Koichiro Yoshino
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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411–417
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-5947
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5947
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Sarah McLeod, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, and Bernd Kiefer. 2019. Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue Policies. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 411–417, Stockholm, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue Policies (McLeod et al., SIGDIAL 2019)
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