Title
Pattern and content controlled response generation
Abstract
Controllable response generation is an attractive and valuable task to the success of conversational systems. However, controlling both pattern and content of the response has not been well studied in existing models since they are mainly based on matching mechanisms. To tackle the problem, we first design a pattern model to automatically learn and extract speech patterns from words. The pattern is then integrated into the encoder–decoder model to control the response pattern. Second, a sentence sampling algorithm is built to directly insert or delete words in the generated response, so that the content is controlled. In this two-stage framework, the response could be explicitly controlled by the pattern and content, without any human annotation of the post-response dataset. Experiments show the proposed framework achieves better performance in response controllability than the state-of-the-art.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102605
Information Processing & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Controllability,Response,Pattern,Content
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0306-4573
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haifeng Sun16827.77
Daixuan Cheng200.34
J. Wang347995.23
Qi Qi421056.01
Jianxin Liao545782.08