In plain words: A chatbot trained on Chinese and English together keeps one memory of patterns the languages share and one for each language's own quirks, so it can borrow strength across languages. It beat chatbots trained on just one language, especially when training examples were scarce.
Abstract
Existing dialog systems are all monolingual, where features shared among different languages are rarely explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel multilingual dialogue system. Specifically, we augment the sequence to sequence framework with improved shared-private memory. The shared memory learns common features among different languages and facilitates a cross-lingual transfer to boost dialogue systems, while the private memory is owned by each separate language to capture its unique feature. Experiments conducted on Chinese and English conversation corpora of different scales show that our proposed architecture outperforms the individually learned model with the help of the other language, where the improvement is particularly distinct when the training data is limited.
Chen Chen, Lisong Qiu, Zhenxin Fu, Dongyan Zhao, Junfei Liu, Rui Yan
arXiv:1910.02365 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Oct 6, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted by NLPCC 2019