Title
Affect-Driven Dialog Generation.
Abstract
The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates emotional responses in a controlled manner using a continuous representation of emotions. The system achieves this by modeling emotions at a word and sequence level using: (1) a vector representation of the desired emotion, (2) an affect regularizer, which penalizes neutral words, and (3) an affect sampling method, which forces the neural network to generate diverse words that are emotionally relevant. During inference, we use a reranking procedure that aims to extract the most emotionally relevant responses using a human-in-the-loop optimization process. We study the performance of our system in terms of both quantitative (BLEU score and response diversity), and qualitative (emotional appropriateness) measures.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
CoRR
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1904.02793
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pierre Colombo104.06
Wojciech Witon200.68
Ashutosh Modi3526.16
James Kennedy417119.07
Mubbasir Kapadia554658.07