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RADE: Reference-Assisted Dialogue Evaluation for Open-Domain Dialogue
To this end, we propose the Reference-Assisted Dialogue Evaluation (RADE) approach under the multi-task learning framework, which leverages the pre-created utterance as reference other than the gold response to relief the one-to-many problem.
Information Retrieval Meets Large Language Models: A Strategic Report from Chinese IR Community
The research field of Information Retrieval (IR) has evolved significantly, expanding beyond traditional search to meet diverse user information needs.
Intent-calibrated Self-training for Answer Selection in Open-domain Dialogues
Specifically, it improves 2. 06% and 1. 00% of F1 score on the two datasets, compared with the strongest baseline with only 5% labeled data.
Answering Ambiguous Questions via Iterative Prompting
To provide feasible answers to an ambiguous question, one approach is to directly predict all valid answers, but this can struggle with balancing relevance and diversity.
Towards Explainable Conversational Recommender Systems
To achieve this, we conduct manual and automatic approaches to extend these dialogues and construct a new CRS dataset, namely Explainable Recommendation Dialogues (E-ReDial).
UMSE: Unified Multi-scenario Summarization Evaluation
Experimental results across three typical scenarios on the benchmark dataset SummEval indicate that our UMSE can achieve comparable performance with several existing strong methods which are specifically designed for each scenario.
Contrastive State Augmentations for Reinforcement Learning-Based Recommender Systems
For the second issue, we propose introducing contrastive signals between augmented states and the state randomly sampled from other sessions to improve the state representation learning further.
Iteratively Learning Representations for Unseen Entities with Inter-Rule Correlations
Recent work on knowledge graph completion (KGC) focused on learning embeddings of entities and relations in knowledge graphs.
Improving Implicit Feedback-Based Recommendation through Multi-Behavior Alignment
Recommender systems that learn from implicit feedback often use large volumes of a single type of implicit user feedback, such as clicks, to enhance the prediction of sparse target behavior such as purchases.
Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agent
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to various language-related tasks.
Generative Knowledge Selection for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues
However, such approaches neglect the interactions between snippets, leading to difficulties in inferring the meaning of snippets.
Learning to Tokenize for Generative Retrieval
As an alternative, generative retrieval represents documents as identifiers (docid) and retrieves documents by generating docids, enabling end-to-end modeling of document retrieval tasks.
A Self-Correcting Sequential Recommender
STEAM first corrects an input item sequence by adjusting the misclicked and/or missed items.
CTRLStruct: Dialogue Structure Learning for Open-Domain Response Generation
Then we perform clustering to utterance-level representations and form topic-level clusters that can be considered as vertices in dialogue structure graph.
Modeling Sequential Recommendation as Missing Information Imputation
To address the limitation of sequential recommenders with side information, we define a way to fuse side information and alleviate the problem of missing side information by proposing a unified task, namely the missing information imputation (MII), which randomly masks some feature fields in a given sequence of items, including item IDs, and then forces a predictive model to recover them.
Variational Reasoning over Incomplete Knowledge Graphs for Conversational Recommendation
We propose a variational Bayesian method to approximate posterior distributions over dialogue-specific subgraphs, which not only leverages the dialogue corpus for restructuring missing entity relations but also dynamically selects knowledge based on the dialogue context.
Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations
MixCL effectively reduces the hallucination of LMs in conversations and achieves the highest performance among LM-based dialogue agents in terms of relevancy and factuality.
Feature-Level Debiased Natural Language Understanding
We also propose a dynamic negative sampling strategy to capture the dynamic influence of biases by employing a bias-only model to dynamically select the most similar biased negative samples.
DGEKT: A Dual Graph Ensemble Learning Method for Knowledge Tracing
Knowledge tracing aims to trace students' evolving knowledge states by predicting their future performance on concept-related exercises.
On the User Behavior Leakage from Recommender System Exposure
Given the fact that system exposure data could be widely accessed from a relatively larger scope, we believe that the user past behavior privacy has a high risk of leakage in recommender systems.
Debiasing Learning for Membership Inference Attacks Against Recommender Systems
To address the above limitations, we propose a Debiasing Learning for Membership Inference Attacks against recommender systems (DL-MIA) framework that has four main components: (1) a difference vector generator, (2) a disentangled encoder, (3) a weight estimator, and (4) an attack model.
Rethinking Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation: A Prompt Perspective
As reinforcement learning (RL) naturally fits this objective -- maximizing an user's reward per session -- it has become an emerging topic in recommender systems.
Event Transition Planning for Open-ended Text Generation
Open-ended text generation tasks, such as dialogue generation and story completion, require models to generate a coherent continuation given limited preceding context.
Paying More Attention to Self-attention: Improving Pre-trained Language Models via Attention Guiding
In this work, we propose a simple yet effective attention guiding mechanism to improve the performance of PLM by encouraging attention towards the established goals.
Metaphorical User Simulators for Evaluating Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Employing existing user simulators to evaluate TDSs is challenging as user simulators are primarily designed to optimize dialogue policies for TDSs and have limited evaluation capabilities.
Membership Inference Attacks Against Recommender Systems
In this paper, we make the first attempt on quantifying the privacy leakage of recommender systems through the lens of membership inference.
ReMeDi: Resources for Multi-domain, Multi-service, Medical Dialogues
(1) there is no dataset with large-scale medical dialogues that covers multiple medical services and contains fine-grained medical labels (i. e., intents, actions, slots, values), and (2) there is no set of established benchmarks for MDSs for multi-domain, multi-service medical dialogues.
Learning to Ask Conversational Questions by Optimizing Levenshtein Distance
Conversational Question Simplification (CQS) aims to simplify self-contained questions into conversational ones by incorporating some conversational characteristics, e. g., anaphora and ellipsis.
Few-Shot Electronic Health Record Coding through Graph Contrastive Learning
We seek to improve the performance for both frequent and rare ICD codes by using a contrastive graph-based EHR coding framework, CoGraph, which re-casts EHR coding as a few-shot learning task.
Improving Transformer-based Sequential Recommenders through Preference Editing
By doing so, the SR model is able to learn how to identify common and unique user preferences, and thereby do better user preference extraction and representation.
Wizard of Search Engine: Access to Information Through Conversations with Search Engines
(2) We release a benchmark dataset, called wizard of search engine (WISE), which allows for comprehensive and in-depth research on all aspects of CIS.
Semi-Supervised Variational Reasoning for Medical Dialogue Generation
We propose an end-to-end variational reasoning approach to medical dialogue generation.
Cross-Domain Contract Element Extraction with a Bi-directional Feedback Clause-Element Relation Network
First, contract elements are far more fine-grained than named entities, which hinders the transfer of extractors.
Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
named-entity-recognition
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Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
The purpose of the task is to increase the evaluation power of user simulations and to make the simulation more human-like.
Abstractive Opinion Tagging
In this paper, we propose the abstractive opinion tagging task, where systems have to automatically generate a ranked list of opinion tags that are based on, but need not occur in, a given set of user-generated reviews.
Mixed Information Flow for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendations
One of the key challenges in cross-domain sequential recommendation is to grasp and transfer the flow of information from multiple domains so as to promote recommendations in all domains.
EmpDG: Multi-resolution Interactive Empathetic Dialogue Generation
In response to this problem, we propose a multi-resolution adversarial model {--} EmpDG, to generate more empathetic responses.
Meaningful Answer Generation of E-Commerce Question-Answering
To generate more meaningful answers, in this paper, we propose a novel generative neural model, called the Meaningful Product Answer Generator (MPAG), which alleviates the safe answer problem by taking product reviews, product attributes, and a prototype answer into consideration.
Knowledge Bridging for Empathetic Dialogue Generation
Finally, to generate the empathetic response, we propose an emotional cross-attention mechanism to learn the emotional dependencies from the emotional context graph.
From Standard Summarization to New Tasks and Beyond: Summarization with Manifold Information
Text summarization is the research area aiming at creating a short and condensed version of the original document, which conveys the main idea of the document in a few words.
Conversations with Search Engines: SERP-based Conversational Response Generation
In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex information needs by conversing conversations with search engines, in the sense that users can express their queries in natural language, and directly receivethe information they need from a short system response in a conversational manner.
A Neural Topical Expansion Framework for Unstructured Persona-oriented Dialogue Generation
To address this, we propose a neural topical expansion framework, namely Persona Exploration and Exploitation (PEE), which is able to extend the predefined user persona description with semantically correlated content before utilizing them to generate dialogue responses.
EmpDG: Multiresolution Interactive Empathetic Dialogue Generation
In response to this problem, we propose a multi-resolution adversarial model -- EmpDG, to generate more empathetic responses.
Meta Matrix Factorization for Federated Rating Predictions
Given a user, we first obtain a collaborative vector by collecting useful information with a collaborative memory module.
Parallel Split-Join Networks for Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendations
We study sequential recommendation in a particularly challenging context, in which multiple individual users share asingle account (i. e., they have a shared account) and in which user behavior is available in multiple domains (i. e., recommendations are cross-domain).
Improving Outfit Recommendation with Co-supervision of Fashion Generation
FARM improves visual understanding by incorporating the supervision of generation loss, which we hypothesize to be able to better encode aesthetic information.
Product-Aware Answer Generation in E-Commerce Question-Answering
In this paper, we propose the task of product-aware answer generation, which tends to generate an accurate and complete answer from large-scale unlabeled e-commerce reviews and product attributes.
Ranked #2 on
Question Answering
on JD Product Question Answer
Abstractive Text Summarization by Incorporating Reader Comments
To tackle this problem, we propose the task of reader-aware abstractive summary generation, which utilizes the reader comments to help the model produce better summary about the main aspect.
Ranked #1 on
Reader-Aware Summarization
on RASG
RepeatNet: A Repeat Aware Neural Recommendation Machine for Session-based Recommendation
RepeatNet integrates a regular neural recommendation approach in the decoder with a new repeat recommendation mechanism that can choose items from a user's history and recommends them at the right time.
Streaming Graph Neural Networks
Current graph neural network models cannot utilize the dynamic information in dynamic graphs.
Explicit State Tracking with Semi-Supervision for Neural Dialogue Generation
However, the \emph{expensive nature of state labeling} and the \emph{weak interpretability} make the dialogue state tracking a challenging problem for both task-oriented and non-task-oriented dialogue generation: For generating responses in task-oriented dialogues, state tracking is usually learned from manually annotated corpora, where the human annotation is expensive for training; for generating responses in non-task-oriented dialogues, most of existing work neglects the explicit state tracking due to the unlimited number of dialogue states.
Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation
Our empirical study on a real-world dataset prove that our model is capable of generating meaningful, diverse and natural responses for both factoid-questions and knowledge grounded chi-chats.
Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures
Existing solutions to task-oriented dialogue systems follow pipeline designs which introduces architectural complexity and fragility.
Explainable Outfit Recommendation with Joint Outfit Matching and Comment Generation
The generated comments can be regarded as explanations for the recommendation results.
Neural Attentive Session-based Recommendation
Specifically, we explore a hybrid encoder with an attention mechanism to model the user's sequential behavior and capture the user's main purpose in the current session, which are combined as a unified session representation later.
Ranked #10 on
Session-Based Recommendations
on yoochoose1/64
Neural Att entive Session-based Recommendation
Specifically, we explore a hybrid encoder with an attention mechanism to model the user’s sequential behavior and capture the user’s main purpose in the current session, which are combined as a unified session representation later.
Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation
In essence, writing some tips and giving a numerical rating are two facets of a user's product assessment action, expressing the user experience and feelings.
