Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language processing,task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both academic and industrial communities.In this p...Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language processing,task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both academic and industrial communities.In this paper,we survey recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems.We also discuss three critical topics for task-oriented dialog systems:(1)improving data efficiency to facilitate dialog modeling in low-resource settings,(2)modeling multi-turn dynamics for dialog policy learning to achieve better task-completion performance,and(3)integrating domain ontology knowledge into the dialog model.Besides,we review the recent progresses in dialog evaluation and some widely-used corpora.We believe that this survey,though incomplete,can shed a light on future research in task-oriented dialog systems.展开更多
Artificial intelligent based dialog systems are getting attention from both business and academic communities.The key parts for such intelligent chatbot systems are domain classification,intent detection,and named ent...Artificial intelligent based dialog systems are getting attention from both business and academic communities.The key parts for such intelligent chatbot systems are domain classification,intent detection,and named entity recognition.Various supervised,unsupervised,and hybrid approaches are used to detect each field.Such intelligent systems,also called natural language understanding systems analyze user requests in sequential order:domain classification,intent,and entity recognition based on the semantic rules of the classified domain.This sequential approach propagates the downstream error;i.e.,if the domain classification model fails to classify the domain,intent and entity recognition fail.Furthermore,training such intelligent system necessitates a large number of user-annotated datasets for each domain.This study proposes a single joint predictive deep neural network framework based on long short-term memory using only a small user-annotated dataset to address these issues.It investigates value added by incorporating unlabeled data from user chatting logs into multi-domain spoken language understanding systems.Systematic experimental analysis of the proposed joint frameworks,along with the semi-supervised multi-domain model,using open-source annotated and unannotated utterances shows robust improvement in the predictive performance of the proposed multi-domain intelligent chatbot over a base joint model and joint model based on adversarial learning.展开更多
This paper offers a reflection on the essential characteristics and conditions of communication, hence on what makes communication possible. Reflection on communication inevitably calls for a focus on the production o...This paper offers a reflection on the essential characteristics and conditions of communication, hence on what makes communication possible. Reflection on communication inevitably calls for a focus on the production of meaning and understanding, on the problem of interpretation. The primary vocation of communication is the other, therefore dialogic listening and responsiveness by the other for the other, beyond communication with the same, that is, beyond the conventions of official communication and the order of discourse. The paper is developed according to the following main topics: 1. Utterance, text, interpretation; 2. The apparent paradox of communication; 3. The "rustle" of communication: between implicit meaning and explicit meaning; 4. Sense, significance, ambiguity: reading together Welby and Bakhtin; 5. More characteristics of live discourse—silence, listening, responsive understanding.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61936010 and 61876096)the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFC0830200)。
文摘Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language processing,task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both academic and industrial communities.In this paper,we survey recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems.We also discuss three critical topics for task-oriented dialog systems:(1)improving data efficiency to facilitate dialog modeling in low-resource settings,(2)modeling multi-turn dynamics for dialog policy learning to achieve better task-completion performance,and(3)integrating domain ontology knowledge into the dialog model.Besides,we review the recent progresses in dialog evaluation and some widely-used corpora.We believe that this survey,though incomplete,can shed a light on future research in task-oriented dialog systems.
基金This research was supported by the BK21 FOUR(Fostering Outstanding Universities for Research)funded by the Ministry of Education(MOE,Korea)and National Research Foundation of Korea(NFR).
文摘Artificial intelligent based dialog systems are getting attention from both business and academic communities.The key parts for such intelligent chatbot systems are domain classification,intent detection,and named entity recognition.Various supervised,unsupervised,and hybrid approaches are used to detect each field.Such intelligent systems,also called natural language understanding systems analyze user requests in sequential order:domain classification,intent,and entity recognition based on the semantic rules of the classified domain.This sequential approach propagates the downstream error;i.e.,if the domain classification model fails to classify the domain,intent and entity recognition fail.Furthermore,training such intelligent system necessitates a large number of user-annotated datasets for each domain.This study proposes a single joint predictive deep neural network framework based on long short-term memory using only a small user-annotated dataset to address these issues.It investigates value added by incorporating unlabeled data from user chatting logs into multi-domain spoken language understanding systems.Systematic experimental analysis of the proposed joint frameworks,along with the semi-supervised multi-domain model,using open-source annotated and unannotated utterances shows robust improvement in the predictive performance of the proposed multi-domain intelligent chatbot over a base joint model and joint model based on adversarial learning.
文摘This paper offers a reflection on the essential characteristics and conditions of communication, hence on what makes communication possible. Reflection on communication inevitably calls for a focus on the production of meaning and understanding, on the problem of interpretation. The primary vocation of communication is the other, therefore dialogic listening and responsiveness by the other for the other, beyond communication with the same, that is, beyond the conventions of official communication and the order of discourse. The paper is developed according to the following main topics: 1. Utterance, text, interpretation; 2. The apparent paradox of communication; 3. The "rustle" of communication: between implicit meaning and explicit meaning; 4. Sense, significance, ambiguity: reading together Welby and Bakhtin; 5. More characteristics of live discourse—silence, listening, responsive understanding.
