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Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems are challenging to build due to the lack of training data and heterogeneous knowledge sources. Existing systems perform poorly on unseen topics due to limited topics covered in the training data. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yu Li , Baolin Peng , Yelong Shen , Yi Mao , Lars Liden , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao

Document-grounded dialogue (DGD) uses documents as external knowledge for dialogue generation. Correctly understanding the dialogue context is crucial for selecting knowledge from the document and generating proper responses. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Longxuan Ma , Jiapeng Li , Mingda Li , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

Target-guided response generation enables dialogue systems to smoothly transition a conversation from a dialogue context toward a target sentence. Such control is useful for designing dialogue systems that direct a conversation toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Prakhar Gupta , Harsh Jhamtani , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Neural conversation models have shown great potentials towards generating fluent and informative responses by introducing external background knowledge. Nevertheless, it is laborious to construct such knowledge-grounded dialogues, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Shilei Liu , Xiaofeng Zhao , Bochao Li , Feiliang Ren , Longhui Zhang , Shujuan Yin

Knowledge-grounded conversation (KGC) shows excellent potential to deliver an engaging and informative response. However, existing approaches emphasize selecting one golden knowledge given a particular dialogue context, overlooking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Tingchen Fu , Chongyang Tao , Rui Yan

Knowledge-grounded dialogue is a task of generating a fluent and informative response based on both conversation context and a collection of external knowledge, in which knowledge selection plays an important role and attracts more and more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Shilei Liu , Xiaofeng Zhao , Bochao Li , Feiliang Ren

Knowledge graph-based dialogue systems are capable of generating more informative responses and can implement sophisticated reasoning mechanisms. However, these models do not take into account the sparseness and incompleteness of knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hongcai Xu , Junpeng Bao , Gaojie Zhang

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems are intended to convey information that is based on evidence provided in a given source text. We discuss the challenges of training a generative neural dialogue model for such systems that is controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Hannah Rashkin , David Reitter , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Dipanjan Das

Commonsense and background knowledge is required for a QA model to answer many nontrivial questions. Different from existing work on knowledge-aware QA, we focus on a more challenging task of leveraging external knowledge to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Bin Bi , Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Jiangnan Xia , Chenliang Li

Open-domain multi-turn conversations normally face the challenges of how to enrich and expand the content of the conversation. Recently, many approaches based on external knowledge are proposed to generate rich semantic and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Feifei Xu , Shanlin Zhou , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Wenkai Zhang , Zhisong Li

To diversify and enrich generated dialogue responses, knowledge-grounded dialogue has been investigated in recent years. The existing methods tackle the knowledge grounding challenge by retrieving the relevant sentences over a large corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yan Xu , Etsuko Ishii , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

Multimodal search-based dialogue is a challenging new task: It extends visually grounded question answering systems into multi-turn conversations with access to an external database. We address this new challenge by learning a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Shubham Agarwal , Ondrej Dusek , Ioannis Konstas , Verena Rieser

Knowledge retrieval is one of the major challenges in building a knowledge-grounded dialogue system. A common method is to use a neural retriever with a distributed approximate nearest-neighbor database to quickly find the relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nhat Tran , Diane Litman

Data-driven, knowledge-grounded neural conversation models are capable of generating more informative responses. However, these models have not yet demonstrated that they can zero-shot adapt to updated, unseen knowledge graphs. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Yi-Lin Tuan , Yun-Nung Chen , Hung-yi Lee

End-to-End intelligent neural dialogue systems suffer from the problems of generating inconsistent and repetitive responses. Existing dialogue models pay attention to unilaterally incorporating personal knowledge into the dialog while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yajing Sun , Yue Hu , Luxi Xing , Yuqiang Xie , Xiangpeng Wei

Two types of knowledge, triples from knowledge graphs and texts from documents, have been studied for knowledge aware open-domain conversation generation, in which graph paths can narrow down vertex candidates for knowledge selection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zhibin Liu , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Implicit knowledge, such as common sense, is key to fluid human conversations. Current neural response generation (RG) models are trained to generate responses directly, omitting unstated implicit knowledge. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Neural network models are capable of generating extremely natural sounding conversational interactions. Nevertheless, these models have yet to demonstrate that they can incorporate content in the form of factual information or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Marjan Ghazvininejad , Chris Brockett , Ming-Wei Chang , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Wen-tau Yih , Michel Galley

To alleviate the problem of structured databases' limited coverage, recent task-oriented dialogue systems incorporate external unstructured knowledge to guide the generation of system responses. However, these usually use word or sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yue Feng , Gerasimos Lampouras , Ignacio Iacobacci

Visual dialogue is a challenging task that needs to extract implicit information from both visual (image) and textual (dialogue history) contexts. Classical approaches pay more attention to the integration of the current question, vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Xiaoze Jiang , Siyi Du , Zengchang Qin , Yajing Sun , Jing Yu