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Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Computation and Language 2018-05-22 v3

Abstract

End-to-end task-oriented dialog systems usually suffer from the challenge of incorporating knowledge bases. In this paper, we propose a novel yet simple end-to-end differentiable model called memory-to-sequence (Mem2Seq) to address this issue. Mem2Seq is the first neural generative model that combines the multi-hop attention over memories with the idea of pointer network. We empirically show how Mem2Seq controls each generation step, and how its multi-hop attention mechanism helps in learning correlations between memories. In addition, our model is quite general without complicated task-specific designs. As a result, we show that Mem2Seq can be trained faster and attain the state-of-the-art performance on three different task-oriented dialog datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08217,
  title  = {Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems},
  author = {Andrea Madotto and Chien-Sheng Wu and Pascale Fung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08217},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2018. Andrea Madotto* and Chien-Sheng Wu* contributed equally to this work

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