@InProceedings{cao-clark:2017:EACLshort,
  author    = {Cao, Kris  and  Clark, Stephen},
  title     = {Latent Variable Dialogue Models and their Diversity},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {182--187},
  abstract  = {We present a dialogue generation model that directly captures the variability
	in possible responses to a given input, which reduces the 'boring output' issue
	of deterministic dialogue models. Experiments show that our model generates
	more diverse outputs than baseline models, and also generates more consistently
	 acceptable output than sampling from a deterministic encoder-decoder model.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-2029}
}