GSN: A Graph-Structured Network for Multi-Party Dialogues

GSN: A Graph-Structured Network for Multi-Party Dialogues

Wenpeng Hu, Zhangming Chan, Bing Liu, Dongyan Zhao, Jinwen Ma, Rui Yan

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 5010-5016. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/696

Existing neural models for dialogue response generation assume that utterances are sequentially organized. However, many real-world dialogues involve multiple interlocutors (i.e., multi-party dialogues), where the assumption does not hold as utterances from different interlocutors can occur ``in parallel.'' This paper generalizes existing sequence-based models to a Graph-Structured neural Network (GSN) for dialogue modeling. The core of GSN is a graph-based encoder that can model the information flow along the graph-structured dialogues (two-party sequential dialogues are a special case). Experimental results show that GSN significantly outperforms existing sequence-based models.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Dialogue
Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Generation