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Conference Paper

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Publication Details

The 29th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2020

Abstract

In recent years many multi-label classification methods have exploited label dependencies to improve performance of classification tasks in various domains, hence casting the tasks to structured prediction problems. We argue that multi-label predictions do not always satisfy domain constraint restrictions. For example when the dialogue state tracking task in task-oriented dialogue domains is solved with multi-label classification approaches, slot-value constraint rules should be enforced following real conversation scenarios.

To address these issues we propose an energy-based neural model to solve the dialogue state tracking task as a structured prediction problem. Furthermore we propose two improvements over previous methods with respect to dialogue slot-value constraint rules: (i) redefining the estimation conditions for the energy network; (ii) regularising label predictions following the dialogue slot-value constraint rules. In our results we find that our extended energy-based neural dialogue state tracker yields better overall performance in term of prediction accuracy, and also behaves more naturally with respect to the conversational rules.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61616-8_64

Funder

Science Foundation Ireland, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

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