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Babbling - the HIT-SCIR system for emotional conversation generation

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper describes the HIT-SCIR emotional response agent “Babbling” to the NLPCC 2017 Shared Task 4 on emotional conversation generation. Babbling consists of two parts, one is a rule based model for picking generic responses and the other is a neural work based model. For the latter part, we apply the encoder-decoder [1] framework to generate emotional response given the post and assigned emotion label. To improve the content coherency, we use LTS [2] for acquiring a better first word. To generate responses with consistent emotions, we employ the emotion embeddings to guide emotionalizing process. To produce more content coherent and emotion consistent responses, we include the attention mechanism [3] and its extension, multi-hop attention (MTA) [4]. The rule based part and neural network based part are ranked the second and fifth place respectively according to the total score.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 6th CCF International Conference, NLPCC 2017, Proceedings
EditorsXuanjing Huang, Jing Jiang, Dongyan Zhao, Yansong Feng, Yu Hong
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages632-641
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319736174
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event6th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2017 - Dalian, China
Duration: 8 Nov 201712 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10619 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period8/11/1712/11/17

Keywords

  • Emotion embeddings
  • Multi-hop attention
  • Seq2Seq model

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