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The Incomplete Utterance Rewriting (IUR) task has garnered significant attention in recent years. Its goal is to reconstruct conversational utterances to better align with the current context, thereby enhancing comprehension. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lunjun Liu , Weilai Jiang , Yaonan Wang

Recent approaches in Incomplete Utterance Rewriting (IUR) fail to capture the source of important words, which is crucial to edit the incomplete utterance, and introduce words from irrelevant utterances. We propose a novel and effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haowei Du , Dinghao Zhang , Chen Li , Yang Li , Dongyan Zhao

Although existing fashionable generation methods on Incomplete Utterance Rewriting (IUR) can generate coherent utterances, they often result in the inclusion of irrelevant and redundant tokens in rewritten utterances due to their inability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Yaxin Fan , Qiaoming Zhu

Context modeling plays a significant role in building multi-turn dialogue systems. In order to make full use of context information, systems can use Incomplete Utterance Rewriting(IUR) methods to simplify the multi-turn dialogue into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhihao Wang , Tangjian Duan , Zihao Wang , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Yongliang Wang

Recent years the task of incomplete utterance rewriting has raised a large attention. Previous works usually shape it as a machine translation task and employ sequence to sequence based architecture with copy mechanism. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Qian Liu , Bei Chen , Jian-Guang Lou , Bin Zhou , Dongmei Zhang

This paper introduces a model for incomplete utterance restoration (IUR) called JET (\textbf{J}oint learning token \textbf{E}xtraction and \textbf{T}ext generation). Different from prior studies that only work on extraction or abstraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Shumpei Inoue , Tsungwei Liu , Nguyen Hong Son , Minh-Tien Nguyen

Previous work on Incomplete Utterance Rewriting (IUR) has primarily focused on generating rewritten utterances based solely on dialogue context, ignoring the widespread phenomenon of coreference and ellipsis in dialogues. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu , Yaxin Fan

In-context learning is a remarkable property of transformers and has been the focus of recent research. An attention mechanism is a key component in transformers, in which an attention matrix encodes relationships between words in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Katsuyuki Hagiwara

Incomplete utterance rewriting has recently raised wide attention. However, previous works do not consider the semantic structural information between incomplete utterance and rewritten utterance or model the semantic structure implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Shuzheng Si , Shuang Zeng , Baobao Chang

This paper proposes a new model for extracting an interpretable sentence embedding by introducing self-attention. Instead of using a vector, we use a 2-D matrix to represent the embedding, with each row of the matrix attending on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Zhouhan Lin , Minwei Feng , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Mo Yu , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou , Yoshua Bengio

The task of incomplete utterance rewriting has recently gotten much attention. Previous models struggled to extract information from the dialogue context, as evidenced by the low restoration scores. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yunshan Chen

Recent research has made impressive progress in single-turn dialogue modelling. In the multi-turn setting, however, current models are still far from satisfactory. One major challenge is the frequently occurred coreference and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen , Rongzhi Zhang , Fei Sun , Pengwei Hu , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou

The strong capabilities of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have made them highly effective for zero-shot re-ranking task. Attention-based re-ranking methods, which derive relevance scores directly from attention weights, offer an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yuxing Tian , Fengran Mo , Weixu Zhang , Yiyan Qi , Jian-Yun Nie

Pre-training Transformer from large-scale raw texts and fine-tuning on the desired task have achieved state-of-the-art results on diverse NLP tasks. However, it is unclear what the learned attention captures. The attention computed by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yau-Shian Wang , Hung-Yi Lee , Yun-Nung Chen

This paper proposes an utterance-to-utterance interactive matching network (U2U-IMN) for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots. Different from previous methods following context-to-response matching or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

Self-attention is essential to Transformer architectures, yet how information is embedded in the self-attention matrices and how different objective functions impact this process remains unclear. We present a mathematical framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Matteo Saponati , Pascal Sager , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Thilo Stadelmann , Benjamin Grewe

Effective representation learning from text has been an active area of research in the fields of NLP and text mining. Attention mechanisms have been at the forefront in order to learn contextual sentence representations. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sneha Mehta , Huzefa Rangwala , Naren Ramakrishnan

Open-domain retrieval-based dialogue systems require a considerable amount of training data to learn their parameters. However, in practice, the negative samples of training data are usually selected from an unannotated conversation data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen , Jingsong Yu

This paper presents a novel design of attention model for text-independent speaker verification. The model takes a pair of input utterances and generates an utterance-level embedding to represent speaker-specific characteristics in each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Jingyu Li , Tan Lee
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