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End-to-End Joint Learning of Natural Language Understanding and Dialogue Manager

Citation Author(s):
Xuesong Yang, Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Paul Crook, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng
Submitted by:
Yun-Nung Chen
Last updated:
10 March 2017 - 2:14pm
Document Type:
Presentation Slides
Document Year:
2017
Event:
Presenters:
Xuesong Yang
Paper Code:
HLT-L2.4
 

Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in conversational systems that predict the
next system actions in response to a current user utterance. Conventional approaches aggregate separate models of natural language understanding (NLU) and system action prediction (SAP) as a pipeline that is sensitive to noisy outputs of error-prone NLU. To address the issues, we propose an end-to-end deep recurrent neural network with limited contextual dialogue memory by jointly training NLU and SAP on DSTC4 multi-domain human-human dialogues. Experiments show that our proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art pipeline models for both NLU and SAP, which indicates that our joint model is capable of mitigating the affects of noisy NLU outputs, and NLU model can be refined by error flows backpropagating from the extra supervised signals of system actions.

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