Generating Multiple Diverse Responses for Short-Text Conversation

Authors

  • Jun Gao Soochow University
  • Wei Bi Tencent AI Lab
  • Xiaojiang Liu Tencent AI Lab
  • Junhui Li Soochow University
  • Shuming Shi Tencent AI Lab

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016383

Abstract

Neural generative models have become popular and achieved promising performance on short-text conversation tasks. They are generally trained to build a 1-to-1 mapping from the input post to its output response. However, a given post is often associated with multiple replies simultaneously in real applications. Previous research on this task mainly focuses on improving the relevance and informativeness of the top one generated response for each post. Very few works study generating multiple accurate and diverse responses for the same post. In this paper, we propose a novel response generation model, which considers a set of responses jointly and generates multiple diverse responses simultaneously. A reinforcement learning algorithm is designed to solve our model. Experiments on two short-text conversation tasks validate that the multiple responses generated by our model obtain higher quality and larger diversity compared with various state-ofthe-art generative models.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Gao, J., Bi, W., Liu, X., Li, J., & Shi, S. (2019). Generating Multiple Diverse Responses for Short-Text Conversation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 6383-6390. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016383

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing