Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue with Dialogue State Representation

Haoyang Wen, Yijia Liu, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin, Ting Liu


Abstract
Classic pipeline models for task-oriented dialogue system require explicit modeling the dialogue states and hand-crafted action spaces to query a domain-specific knowledge base. Conversely, sequence-to-sequence models learn to map dialogue history to the response in current turn without explicit knowledge base querying. In this work, we propose a novel framework that leverages the advantages of classic pipeline and sequence-to-sequence models. Our framework models a dialogue state as a fixed-size distributed representation and use this representation to query a knowledge base via an attention mechanism. Experiment on Stanford Multi-turn Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialogue Dataset shows that our framework significantly outperforms other sequence-to-sequence based baseline models on both automatic and human evaluation.
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C18-1320
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3781–3792
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Haoyang Wen, Yijia Liu, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin, and Ting Liu. 2018. Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue with Dialogue State Representation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3781–3792, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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