Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | End-to-end task-oriented dialog systems often suffer from the challenge of incorporating knowledge bases. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel yet simple end-to-end differentiable model called memory-tosequence to address this issue. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be trained faster and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three different task-oriented dialog datasets. |
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