Abstract
Building a controllable neural conversation model (NCM) is an important task. In this paper, we focus on controlling the responses of NCMs by using dialogue act labels of responses as conditions. We introduce an adversarial learning framework for the task of generating conditional responses with a new objective to a discriminator, which explicitly distinguishes sentences by using labels. This change strongly encourages the generation of label-conditioned sentences. We compared the proposed method with some existing methods for generating conditional responses. The experimental results show that our proposed method has higher controllability for dialogue acts even though it has higher or comparable naturalness to existing methods.- Anthology ID:
- W19-8627
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
- Month:
- October–November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Tokyo, Japan
- Venue:
- INLG
- SIG:
- SIGGEN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 198–207
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-8627
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-8627
- Cite (ACL):
- Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, and Satoshi Nakamura. 2019. Neural Conversation Model Controllable by Given Dialogue Act Based on Adversarial Learning and Label-aware Objective. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 198–207, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Neural Conversation Model Controllable by Given Dialogue Act Based on Adversarial Learning and Label-aware Objective (Kawano et al., INLG 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/W19-8627.pdf