Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training for Neural Response Generation

Qingfu Zhu, Lei Cui, Wei-Nan Zhang, Furu Wei, Ting Liu


Abstract
Dialogue systems are usually built on either generation-based or retrieval-based approaches, yet they do not benefit from the advantages of different models. In this paper, we propose a Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training (REAT) method for neural response generation. Distinct from existing approaches, the REAT method leverages an encoder-decoder framework in terms of an adversarial training paradigm, while taking advantage of N-best response candidates from a retrieval-based system to construct the discriminator. An empirical study on a large scale public available benchmark dataset shows that the REAT method significantly outperforms the vanilla Seq2Seq model as well as the conventional adversarial training approach.
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P19-1366
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3763–3773
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1366
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1366
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Qingfu Zhu, Lei Cui, Wei-Nan Zhang, Furu Wei, and Ting Liu. 2019. Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training for Neural Response Generation. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3763–3773, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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