Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2019

Abstract

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the approaches neglect the emotional information conveyed by a post while generating responses. This article addresses this problem by proposing a unified end-to-end neural architecture, which is capable of simultaneously encoding the semantics and the emotions in a post for generating more intelligent responses with appropriately expressed emotions. Extensive experiments on real-world data demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of both content coherence and emotion appropriateness.

Keywords

Dialogue generation, Emotional chatbot, Emotional conversation

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Theory and Algorithms

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

CIKM '19: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, November 3-7

First Page

1404

Last Page

1410

ISBN

9781450369763

Identifier

10.1145/3357384.3357937

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3357384.3357937

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