no code implementations • Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Bowen Wu, huan zhang, Mengyuan Li, Zongsheng Wang, Qihang Feng, Junhong Huang, Baoxun Wang
There are plenty of studies showing that the knowledge distillation is efficient in transferring the knowledge from BERT into the model with a smaller size of parameters.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Bowen Wu, Mengyuan Li, Zongsheng Wang, Yifu Chen, Derek Wong, Qihang Feng, Junhong Huang, Baoxun Wang
Leveraging persona information of users in Neural Response Generators (NRG) to perform personalized conversations has been considered as an attractive and important topic in the research of conversational agents over the past few years.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Bowen Wu, Haoyang Huang, Zongsheng Wang, Qihang Feng, Jingsong Yu, Baoxun Wang
Despite the remarkable progress on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) with the help of open-source datasets, recent studies indicate that most of the current MRC systems unfortunately suffer from weak robustness against adversarial samples.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Zhen Xu, Baoxun Wang, huan zhang, Kexin Qiu, Deyuan Zhang, Chengjie Sun
This paper presents a new methodology for modeling the local semantic distribution of responses to a given query in the human-conversation corpus, and on this basis, explores a specified adversarial learning mechanism for training Neural Response Generation (NRG) models to build conversational agents.
no code implementations • 14 Aug 2019 • Yifu Chen, Zongsheng Wang, Bowen Wu, Mengyuan Li, huan zhang, Lin Ma, Feng Liu, Qihang Feng, Baoxun Wang
Chinese meme-face is a special kind of internet subculture widely spread in Chinese Social Community Networks.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2018 • Ziwei Bai, Bo Yu, Bowen Wu, Zhuoran Wang, Baoxun Wang
Generating structured query language (SQL) from natural language is an emerging research topic.
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Bowen Wu, Nan Jiang, Zhifeng Gao, Mengyuan Li, Zongsheng Wang, Suke Li, Qihang Feng, Wenge Rong, Baoxun Wang
Recent advances in sequence-to-sequence learning reveal a purely data-driven approach to the response generation task.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Zongsheng Wang, Yunzhi Bai, Bowen Wu, Zhen Xu, Zhuoran Wang, Baoxun Wang
Generative dialog models usually adopt beam search as the inference method to generate responses.
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Zhen Xu, Nan Jiang, Bingquan Liu, Wenge Rong, Bowen Wu, Baoxun Wang, Zhuoran Wang, Xiaolong Wang
The experimental results have shown that our proposed corpus can be taken as a new benchmark dataset for the NRG task, and the presented metrics are promising to guide the optimization of NRG models by quantifying the diversity of the generated responses reasonably.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Jianan Wang, Xin Wang, Fang Li, Zhen Xu, Zhuoran Wang, Baoxun Wang
For practical chatbots, one of the essential factor for improving user experience is the capability of customizing the talking style of the agents, that is, to make chatbots provide responses meeting users{'} preference on language styles, topics, etc.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2017 • Xin Wang, Jianan Wang, Yuanchao Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Zhuoran Wang, Baoxun Wang
Besides, strategies of obtaining distance supervision data for pre-training are also discussed in this work.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Zhen Xu, Bingquan Liu, Baoxun Wang, Chengjie Sun, Xiaolong Wang, Zhuoran Wang, Chao Qi
This paper presents a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to model single-turn short-text conversations, which trains a sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) network for response generation simultaneously with a discriminative classifier that measures the differences between human-produced responses and machine-generated ones.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Bowen Wu, Baoxun Wang, Hui Xue
For automatic chatting systems, it is indeed a great challenge to reply the given query considering the conversation history, rather than based on the query only.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2016 • Zhen Xu, Bingquan Liu, Baoxun Wang, Chengjie Sun, Xiaolong Wang
Modeling human conversations is the essence for building satisfying chat-bots with multi-turn dialog ability.