A persona-based neural conversation model

54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 994-1003

  Li, Jiwei ^a   Galley, Michel ^b   Brockett, Chris ^b   Spithourakis, Georgios P ^c   Gao, Jianfeng ^b   Dolan, Bill ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BLEU SCORES; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; NEURAL RESPONSE; SEQUENCE MODELS; SPEAKER MODEL; SPEAKING STYLES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85011829523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/p16-1094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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