no code implementations • dialdoc (ACL) 2022 • Tianda Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu
When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Jia-Chen Gu, Chao-Hong Tan, Chongyang Tao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Huang Hu, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang
To address these challenges, we present HeterMPC, a heterogeneous graph-based neural network for response generation in MPCs which models the semantics of utterances and interlocutors simultaneously with two types of nodes in a graph.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2022 • Chao-Hong Tan, Jia-Chen Gu, Chongyang Tao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang
To address the problem, we propose augmenting TExt Generation via Task-specific and Open-world Knowledge (TegTok) in a unified framework.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu Wu, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu
This is a many-to-many semantic matching task because both contexts and personas in SPD are composed of multiple sentences.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Jia-Chen Gu, Chongyang Tao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Can Xu, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang
Recently, various neural models for multi-party conversation (MPC) have achieved impressive improvements on a variety of tasks such as addressee recognition, speaker identification and response prediction.
1 code implementation • 19 May 2021 • Jia-Chen Gu, Hui Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu
Empirical studies on the Persona-Chat dataset show that the partner personas neglected in previous studies can improve the accuracy of response selection in the IMN- and BERT-based models.
1 code implementation • 22 Dec 2020 • Chao-Hong Tan, Xiaoyu Yang, Zi'ou Zheng, Tianda Li, Yufei Feng, Jia-Chen Gu, Quan Liu, Dan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Xiaodan Zhu
Task-oriented conversational modeling with unstructured knowledge access, as track 1 of the 9th Dialogue System Technology Challenges (DSTC 9), requests to build a system to generate response given dialogue history and knowledge access.
1 code implementation • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu, Zhigang Chen, Xiaodan Zhu
The challenges of building knowledge-grounded retrieval-based chatbots lie in how to ground a conversation on its background knowledge and how to match response candidates with both context and knowledge simultaneously.
1 code implementation • 8 Apr 2020 • Tianda Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Xiaodan Zhu, Quan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Zhiming Su, Si Wei
Disentanglement is a problem in which multiple conversations occur in the same channel simultaneously, and the listener should decide which utterance is part of the conversation he will respond to.
2 code implementations • 7 Apr 2020 • Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Quan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Zhiming Su, Si Wei, Xiaodan Zhu
In this paper, we study the problem of employing pre-trained language models for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2020 • Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Quan Liu, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu-Ping Ruan
The NOESIS II challenge, as the Track 2 of the 8th Dialogue System Technology Challenges (DSTC 8), is the extension of DSTC 7.
Ranked #1 on
Conversation Disentanglement
on irc-disentanglement
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2020 • Yu-Ping Ruan, Zhen-Hua Ling, Jia-Chen Gu, Quan Liu
We present our work on Track 4 in the Dialogue System Technology Challenges 8 (DSTC8).
1 code implementation • 16 Nov 2019 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu
The distances between context and response utterances are employed as a prior component when calculating the attention weights.
Ranked #8 on
Conversational Response Selection
on E-commerce
1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Xiaodan Zhu, Quan Liu
Compared with previous persona fusion approaches which enhance the representation of a context by calculating its similarity with a given persona, the DIM model adopts a dual matching architecture, which performs interactive matching between responses and contexts and between responses and personas respectively for ranking response candidates.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2019 • Yu-Ping Ruan, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu, Jia-Chen Gu, Xiaodan Zhu
At this stage, two different models are proposed, i. e., a variational generative (VariGen) model and a retrieval based (Retrieval) model.
1 code implementation • 7 Jan 2019 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu
In this paper, we propose an interactive matching network (IMN) for the multi-turn response selection task.
Ranked #7 on
Conversational Response Selection
on E-commerce
1 code implementation • 3 Dec 2018 • Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu-Ping Ruan, Quan Liu
This paper presents an end-to-end response selection model for Track 1 of the 7th Dialogue System Technology Challenges (DSTC7).
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Conversational Response Selection
on DSTC7 Ubuntu