One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues

Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan


Abstract
Currently, researchers have paid great attention to retrieval-based dialogues in open-domain. In particular, people study the problem by investigating context-response matching for multi-turn response selection based on publicly recognized benchmark data sets. State-of-the-art methods require a response to interact with each utterance in a context from the beginning, but the interaction is performed in a shallow way. In this work, we let utterance-response interaction go deep by proposing an interaction-over-interaction network (IoI). The model performs matching by stacking multiple interaction blocks in which residual information from one time of interaction initiates the interaction process again. Thus, matching information within an utterance-response pair is extracted from the interaction of the pair in an iterative fashion, and the information flows along the chain of the blocks via representations. Evaluation results on three benchmark data sets indicate that IoI can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods in terms of various matching metrics. Through further analysis, we also unveil how the depth of interaction affects the performance of IoI.
Anthology ID:
P19-1001
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–11
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1001
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1001
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Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, and Rui Yan. 2019. One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1–11, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues (Tao et al., ACL 2019)
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DoubanDouban Conversation CorpusE-commerceUDC