Michael Haeger
2020
Conversational Semantic Parsing
Armen Aghajanyan
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Jean Maillard
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Akshat Shrivastava
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Keith Diedrick
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Michael Haeger
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Haoran Li
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Yashar Mehdad
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Veselin Stoyanov
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Anuj Kumar
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Mike Lewis
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Sonal Gupta
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
The structured representation for semantic parsing in task-oriented assistant systems is geared towards simple understanding of one-turn queries. Due to the limitations of the representation, the session-based properties such as co-reference resolution and context carryover are processed downstream in a pipelined system. In this paper, we propose a semantic representation for such task-oriented conversational systems that can represent concepts such as co-reference and context carryover, enabling comprehensive understanding of queries in a session. We release a new session-based, compositional task-oriented parsing dataset of 20k sessions consisting of 60k utterances. Unlike Dialog State Tracking Challenges, the queries in the dataset have compositional forms. We propose a new family of Seq2Seq models for the session-based parsing above, which also set state-of-the-art in ATIS, SNIPS, TOP and DSTC2. Notably, we improve the best known results on DSTC2 by up to 5 points for slot-carryover.
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- Armen Aghajanyan 1
- Jean Maillard 1
- Akshat Shrivastava 1
- Keith Diedrick 1
- Haoran Li 1
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