{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/assigning-personalityidentity-to-a-chatting","title":"Assigning personality/identity to a chatting machine for coherent conversation generation","arxiv_id":"1706.02861","date":"2017-06-09","proceeding":null,"authors":["Qiao Qian","Minlie Huang","Haizhou Zhao","Jingfang Xu","Xiaoyan Zhu"],"abstract":"Endowing a chatbot with personality or an identity is quite challenging but\ncritical to deliver more realistic and natural conversations. In this paper, we\naddress the issue of generating responses that are coherent to a pre-specified\nagent profile. We design a model consisting of three modules: a profile\ndetector to decide whether a post should be responded using the profile and\nwhich key should be addressed, a bidirectional decoder to generate responses\nforward and backward starting from a selected profile value, and a position\ndetector that predicts a word position from which decoding should start given a\nselected profile value. We show that general conversation data from social\nmedia can be used to generate profile-coherent responses. Manual and automatic\nevaluation shows that our model can deliver more coherent, natural, and\ndiversified responses.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02861v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.02861v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"assigning-personalityidentity-to-a-chatting","repo_url":"https://github.com/ghosthamlet/persona","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"chatbot","task_name":"Chatbot"},{"task_slug":"decoder","task_name":"Decoder"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"Position"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1706.02861","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}