Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation

@article{Wang2020MultiDomainDA,
  title={Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation},
  author={Kai Wang and Junfeng Tian and Rui Wang and Xiaojun Quan and Jianxing Yu},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2004.12363}
}
Generating fluent and informative responses is of critical importance for task-oriented dialogue systems. Existing pipeline approaches generally predict multiple dialogue acts first and use them to assist response generation. There are at least two shortcomings with such approaches. First, the inherent structures of multi-domain dialogue acts are neglected. Second, the semantic associations between acts and responses are not taken into account for response generation. To address these issues… 
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