Who Is Speaking to Whom? Learning to Identify Utterance Addressee in Multi-Party Conversations (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | In multi-party conversations, addressee information is not always explicit . researchers have spent great efforts to understand conversations between two participants, which is known as multi-part conversation. |
| Approach: | They propose a who-to-whom model which models users and utterances in a conversation session jointly in an interactive way. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on the Ubuntu Multi-Party Conversation Corpus and shows consistent improvements. |
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