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title = "Topic Spotting using Hierarchical Networks with Self Attention",
author = "Chitkara, Pooja and
Modi, Ashutosh and
Avvaru, Pravalika and
Janghorbani, Sepehr and
Kapadia, Mubbasir",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/N19-1376",
doi = "10.18653/v1/N19-1376",
pages = "3755--3761",
abstract = "Success of deep learning techniques have renewed the interest in development of dialogue systems. However, current systems struggle to have consistent long term conversations with the users and fail to build rapport. Topic spotting, the task of automatically inferring the topic of a conversation, has been shown to be helpful in making dialog system more engaging and efficient. We propose a hierarchical model with self attention for topic spotting. Experiments on the Switchboard corpus show the superior performance of our model over previously proposed techniques for topic spotting and deep models for text classification. Additionally, in contrast to offline processing of dialog, we also analyze the performance of our model in a more realistic setting i.e. in an online setting where the topic is identified in real time as the dialog progresses. Results show that our model is able to generalize even with limited information in the online setting.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Topic Spotting using Hierarchical Networks with Self Attention](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1376) (Chitkara et al., NAACL 2019)
ACL
- Pooja Chitkara, Ashutosh Modi, Pravalika Avvaru, Sepehr Janghorbani, and Mubbasir Kapadia. 2019. Topic Spotting using Hierarchical Networks with Self Attention. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 3755–3761, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.