Generating Informative Dialogue Responses with Keywords-Guided Networks

Heng Da Xu, Xian Ling Mao*, Zewen Chi, Fanshu Sun, Jingjing Zhu, Heyan Huang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Recently, open-domain dialogue systems have attracted growing attention. Most of them use the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) architecture to generate dialogue responses. However, traditional Seq2Seq-based open-domain dialogue models tend to generate generic and safe responses, which are less informative, unlike human responses. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective Keywords-guided Sequence-to-sequence model (KW-Seq2Seq) which uses keywords information as guidance to generate open-domain dialogue responses. Specifically, given the dialogue context, KW-Seq2Seq first uses a keywords decoder to predict a sequence of topic keywords, and then generates the final response under the guidance of them. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the keywords information can facilitate the model to produce more informative, coherent, and fluent responses, yielding substantive gain in both automatic and human evaluation metrics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 10th CCF International Conference, NLPCC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsLu Wang, Yansong Feng, Yu Hong, Ruifang He
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages179-192
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030884826
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 13 Oct 202117 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13029 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period13/10/2117/10/21

Keywords

  • Dialogue system
  • Keywords-guided networks
  • Response generation

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