One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Currently, retrieval-based dialogues are performed in shallow ways . a recent study investigated the problem of context-response matching in open-domain . |
| Approach: | They propose a model that lets utterance-response interaction go deep by stacking interaction blocks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark data sets. |
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