Learning to Map Context-Dependent Sentences to Executable Formal Queries (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models that map utterances to executable queries are context-dependent and can incorporate interaction history. |
| Approach: | They propose a context-dependent model that maps utterances to executable queries . their approach combines implicit and explicit modeling of references between utterations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can map utterances to executable queries based on interaction history . key to mapping utterrances to queries is resolving references . |
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