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Example Phrase Adaptation Method for Customized, Example-Based Dialog System Using User Data and Distributed Word Representations

Norihide KITAOKA, Eichi SETO, Ryota NISHIMURA

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We have developed an adaptation method which allows the customization of example-based dialog systems for individual users by applying “plus” and “minus” operations to the distributed representations obtained using the word2vec method. After retrieving user-related profile information from the Web, named entity extraction is applied to the retrieval results. Words with a high term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) score are then adopted as user related words. Next, we calculate the similarity between the distrubuted representations of selected user-related words and nouns in the existing example phrases, using word2vec embedding. We then generate phrases adapted to the user by substituting user-related words for highly similar words in the original example phrases. Word2vec also has a special property which allows the arithmetic operations “plus” and “minus” to be applied to distributed word representations. By applying these operations to words used in the original phrases, we are able to determine which user-related words can be used to replace the original words. The user-related words are then substituted to create customized example phrases. We evaluated the naturalness of the generated phrases and found that the system could generate natural phrases.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E103-D No.11 pp.2332-2339
Publication Date
2020/11/01
Publicized
2020/07/30
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7066
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Speech and Hearing

Authors

Norihide KITAOKA
  Toyohashi University of Technology
Eichi SETO
  Tokushima University
Ryota NISHIMURA
  Tokushima University

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