Automated Utterance Generation

Authors

  • Soham Parikh University of Pennsylvania
  • Quaizar Vohra Passage AI
  • Mitul Tiwari Passage AI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i08.7047

Abstract

Conversational AI assistants are becoming popular and question-answering is an important part of any conversational assistant. Using relevant utterances as features in question-answering has shown to improve both the precision and recall for retrieving the right answer by a conversational assistant. Hence, utterance generation has become an important problem with the goal of generating relevant utterances (sentences or phrases) from a knowledge base article that consists of a title and a description. However, generating good utterances usually requires a lot of manual effort, creating the need for an automated utterance generation. In this paper, we propose an utterance generation system which 1) uses extractive summarization to extract important sentences from the description, 2) uses multiple paraphrasing techniques to generate a diverse set of paraphrases of the title and summary sentences, and 3) selects good candidate paraphrases with the help of a novel candidate selection algorithm.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Parikh, S., Vohra, Q., & Tiwari, M. (2020). Automated Utterance Generation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(08), 13344-13349. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i08.7047

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IAAI Technical Track: Emerging Papers