Improving Contextual Coherence in Variational Personalized and Empathetic Dialogue Agents
In recent years, latent variable models, such as the Conditional Variational Auto Encoder (CVAE), have been applied to both personalized and empathetic dialogue generation. Prior work have largely focused on generating diverse dialogue responses that exhibit persona consistency and empathy. However, when it comes to the contextual coherence of the generated responses, there is still room for improvement. Hence, to improve the contextual coherence, we propose a novel Uncertainty Aware CVAE (UA-CVAE) framework. The UA-CVAE framework involves approximating and incorporating the aleatoric uncertainty during response generation. We apply our framework to both personalized and empathetic dialogue generation. Empirical results show that our framework significantly improves the contextual coherence of the generated response. Additionally, we introduce a novel automatic metric for measuring contextual coherence, which was found to correlate positively with human judgement.
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