Master’s Thesis Presentation: Deep Context Resolution

Friday, May 11, 2018 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Speaker: Junnan Chen, Master’s candidate

Conversations depend on information from the context. To go beyond one-round conversation, a chatbot must resolve contextual information such as: 1) co-reference resolution, 2) ellipsis resolution, and 3) conjunctive relationship resolution.

There are simply not enough data to avoid these problems by trying to train a sequence-to-sequence model for multi-round conversation similar to that of one-round conversation.

The contributions of this paper are: 1) We formulate the problem of context resolution for conversation; 2) We present deep learning models, including an end-to-end network for context resolution; 3) We propose a way of creating a huge amount of realistic data for training such models with good experimental results.