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Proactive Retrieval-based Chatbots based on Relevant Knowledge and Goals
Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Kun Zhou +3
A proactive dialogue system has the ability to proactively lead the conversation. Different from the general chatbots which only react to the user, proactive dialogue systems can b…
Limited Data Emotional Voice Conversion Leveraging Text-to-Speech: Two-stage Sequence-to-Sequence Training
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to change the emotional state of an utterance while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In this paper, we propose a novel…
Content Selection Network for Document-grounded Retrieval-based Chatbots
Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Kun Zhou +2
Grounding human-machine conversation in a document is an effective way to improve the performance of retrieval-based chatbots. However, only a part of the document content may be r…
Unsupervised Context Rewriting for Open Domain Conversation
Kun Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yu Wu +2
Context modeling has a pivotal role in open domain conversation. Existing works either use heuristic methods or jointly learn context modeling and response generation with an encod…