Shiquan Yang


2020

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GraphDialog: Integrating Graph Knowledge into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Shiquan Yang | Rui Zhang | Sarah Erfani
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

End-to-end task-oriented dialogue systems aim to generate system responses directly from plain text inputs. There are two challenges for such systems: one is how to effectively incorporate external knowledge bases (KBs) into the learning framework; the other is how to accurately capture the semantics of dialogue history. In this paper, we address these two challenges by exploiting the graph structural information in the knowledge base and in the dependency parsing tree of the dialogue. To effectively leverage the structural information in dialogue history, we propose a new recurrent cell architecture which allows representation learning on graphs. To exploit the relations between entities in KBs, the model combines multi-hop reasoning ability based on the graph structure. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves consistent improvement over state-of-the-art models on two different task-oriented dialogue datasets.

2009

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Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns
Long Jiang | Shiquan Yang | Ming Zhou | Xiaohua Liu | Qingsheng Zhu
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP