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DAL: Dual Adversarial Learning for Dialogue Generation

Computation and Language 2019-06-25 v1

Abstract

In open-domain dialogue systems, generative approaches have attracted much attention for response generation. However, existing methods are heavily plagued by generating safe responses and unnatural responses. To alleviate these two problems, we propose a novel framework named Dual Adversarial Learning (DAL) for high-quality response generation. DAL is the first work to innovatively utilizes the duality between query generation and response generation to avoid safe responses and increase the diversity of the generated responses. Additionally, DAL uses adversarial learning to mimic human judges and guides the system to generate natural responses. Experimental results demonstrate that DAL effectively improves both diversity and overall quality of the generated responses. DAL outperforms the state-of-the-art methods regarding automatic metrics and human evaluations.

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@article{arxiv.1906.09556,
  title  = {DAL: Dual Adversarial Learning for Dialogue Generation},
  author = {Shaobo Cui and Rongzhong Lian and Di Jiang and Yuanfeng Song and Siqi Bao and Yong Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09556},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

10 pages, published on NeuralGen workshop at NAACL 2019

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