MOSS: End-to-End Dialog System Framework with Modular Supervision

Authors

  • Weixin Liang Zhejiang University
  • Youzhi Tian Zhejiang University
  • Chengcai Chen Xiaoi Robot Technology Co., Ltd
  • Zhou Yu UCDavis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6349

Abstract

A major bottleneck in training end-to-end task-oriented dialog system is the lack of data. To utilize limited training data more efficiently, we propose Modular Supervision Network (MOSS), an encoder-decoder training framework that could incorporate supervision from various intermediate dialog system modules including natural language understanding, dialog state tracking, dialog policy learning and natural language generation. With only 60% of the training data, MOSS-all (i.e., MOSS with supervision from all four dialog modules) outperforms state-of-the-art models on CamRest676. Moreover, introducing modular supervision has even bigger benefits when the dialog task has a more complex dialog state and action space. With only 40% of the training data, MOSS-all outperforms the state-of-the-art model on a complex laptop network trouble shooting dataset, LaptopNetwork, that we introduced. LaptopNetwork consists of conversations between real customers and customer service agents in Chinese. Moreover, MOSS framework can accommodate dialogs that have supervision from different dialog modules at both framework level and model level. Therefore, MOSS is extremely flexible to update in real-world deployment.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Liang, W., Tian, Y., Chen, C., & Yu, Z. (2020). MOSS: End-to-End Dialog System Framework with Modular Supervision. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(05), 8327-8335. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6349

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing