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Resolution of Answer-Repetition Problems in a Generative Question-Answering Chat System

Sihyung Kim, Harksoo Kim

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2018.45.9.925

A question-answering (QA) chat system is a chatbot that responds to simple factoid questions by retrieving information from knowledge bases. Recently, many chat systems based on sequence-to-sequence neural networks have been implemented and have shown new possibilities for generative models. However, the generative chat systems have word repetition problems, in that the same words in a response are repeatedly generated. A QA chat system also has similar problems, in that the same answer expressions frequently appear for a given question and are repeatedly generated. To resolve this answer-repetition problem, we propose a new sequence-to-sequence model reflecting a coverage mechanism and an adaptive control of attention (ACA) mechanism in a decoder. In addition, we propose a repetition loss function reflecting the number of unique words in a response. In the experiments, the proposed model performed better than various baseline models on all metrics, such as accuracy, BLEU, ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L, and Distinct-1.

Knowledge Embedding Method for Implementing a Generative Question-Answering Chat System

Sihyung Kim, Hyeon-gu Lee, Harksoo Kim

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2018.45.2.134

A chat system is a computer program that understands user"s miscellaneous utterances and generates appropriate responses. Sometimes a chat system needs to answer users’ simple information-seeking questions. However, previous generative chat systems do not consider how to embed knowledge entities (i.e., subjects and objects in triple knowledge), essential elements for question-answering. The previous chat models have a disadvantage that they generate same responses although knowledge entities in users’ utterances are changed. To alleviate this problem, we propose a knowledge entity embedding method for improving question-answering accuracies of a generative chat system. The proposed method uses a Siamese recurrent neural network for embedding knowledge entities and their synonyms. For experiments, we implemented a sequence-to-sequence model in which subjects and predicates are encoded and objects are decoded. The proposed embedding method showed 12.48% higher accuracies than the conventional embedding method based on a convolutional neural network.


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