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Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog

26 Aug 2019IJCNLP 2019 11arXiv:1908.09890archive 2025-07-28

Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi

Neural models of dialog rely on generalized latent representations of language. This paper introduces a novel training procedure which explicitly learns multiple representations of language at several levels of granularity. The multi-granularity training algorithm modifies the mechanism by which negative candidate responses are sampled in order to control the granularity of learned latent representations. Strong performance gains are observed on the next utterance retrieval task using both the MultiWOZ dataset and the Ubuntu dialog corpus. Analysis significantly demonstrates that multiple granularities of representation are being learned, and that multi-granularity training facilitates better transfer to downstream tasks.

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Conversational Response SelectionRetrieval

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Conversational Response Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v1, Ranking) DAM-MG R10@1 0.753 #20 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Conversational Response Selection Ubuntu Dialogue (v1, Ranking) DAM-MG R2@1 0.935 #20 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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