Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation

Understand

We propose Neural Responding Machine (NRM), a neural network-based response generator for Short-Text Conversation.

• NRM takes the general encoder-decoder framework: it formalizes the generation of response as a decoding process based on the latent representation of the input text, while both encoding and decoding are realized with recurrent neural networks (RNN).
• The NRM is trained with a large amount of one-round conversation data collected from a microblogging service.
• Empirical study shows that NRM can generate grammatically correct and content-wise appropriate responses to over 75% of the input text, outperforming state-of-the-arts in the same setting, including retrieval-based and SMT-based models.