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Multimodal Dialog System: Relational Graph-based Context-aware Question Understanding

  • Haoyu Zhang
  • , Meng Liu*
  • , Zan Gao
  • , Xiaoqiang Lei
  • , Yinglong Wang
  • , Liqiang Nie
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Shandong University
  • Shandong Jianzhu University
  • Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute
  • Kuaishou

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Abstract

Multimodal dialog system has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry over recent years. Although existing methods have achieved some progress, they are still confronted with challenges in the aspect of question understanding (i.e., user intention comprehension). In this paper, we present a relational graph-based context-aware question understanding scheme, which enhances the user intention comprehension from local to global. Specifically, we first utilize multiple attribute matrices as the guidance information to fully exploit the product-related keywords from each textual sentence, strengthening the local representation of user intentions. Afterwards, we design a sparse graph attention network to adaptively aggregate effective context information for each utterance, completely understanding the user intentions from a global perspective. Moreover, extensive experiments over a benchmark dataset show the superiority of our model compared with several state-of-the-art baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages695-703
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450386517
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Oct 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 20 Oct 202124 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameMM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/10/2124/10/21

Keywords

  • attribute-enhanced text representation
  • multimodal dialog system
  • sparse relational context modeling

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