2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

Technical Program

Paper Detail

Paper IDHLT-12.1
Paper Title KNOWLEDGE-BASED CHAT DETECTION WITH FALSE MENTION DISCRIMINATION
Authors Wei Liu, Peijie Huang, Dongzhu Liang, Zihao Zhou, South China Agricultural University, China
SessionHLT-12: Language Understanding 4: Semantic Understanding
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Human Language Technology: [HLT-UNDE] Spoken Language Understanding and Computational Semantics
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Abstract Chat detection is critical for recently emerged personal intelligent assistants (PIA), which can be seen as a hybrid of domain-specific task-oriented spoken dialogue systems and open-domain non-task-oriented ones. Recent advances have attempted to utilize external domain knowledge to enhance utterance semantics understanding and can contribute to chat detection. However, it also inevitably introduces false mention (i.e., token spans being misidentified as entity mentions) in Chat utterances, causing performance to degrade. To deal with this issue, this paper proposes a new model for knowledge-based chat detection with false mention discrimination (FMD-KChat). A two-stage pipeline is adopted, which contains an additional neural network-based classifier in the first stage for distinguishing the false mentions and a feature fusion gate in the chat detection stage for combining the contextual representation with the external knowledge feature based on the false mention discrimination probability. Experiments on the SMP-ECDT benchmark corpus show the well performance of the proposed model.