Hierarchical Pre-training for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Dialog

Emile Chapuis, Pierre Colombo, Matteo Manica, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel


Abstract
Sequence labelling tasks like Dialog Act and Emotion/Sentiment identification are a key component of spoken dialog systems. In this work, we propose a new approach to learn generic representations adapted to spoken dialog, which we evaluate on a new benchmark we call Sequence labellIng evaLuatIon benChmark fOr spoken laNguagE benchmark (SILICONE). SILICONE is model-agnostic and contains 10 different datasets of various sizes. We obtain our representations with a hierarchical encoder based on transformer architectures, for which we extend two well-known pre-training objectives. Pre-training is performed on OpenSubtitles: a large corpus of spoken dialog containing over 2.3 billion of tokens. We demonstrate how hierarchical encoders achieve competitive results with consistently fewer parameters compared to state-of-the-art models and we show their importance for both pre-training and fine-tuning.
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2020.findings-emnlp.239
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
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November
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2020
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Online
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Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2636–2648
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.239
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.239
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Emile Chapuis, Pierre Colombo, Matteo Manica, Matthieu Labeau, and Chloé Clavel. 2020. Hierarchical Pre-training for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Dialog. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 2636–2648, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hierarchical Pre-training for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Dialog (Chapuis et al., Findings 2020)
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Data
SILICONE BenchmarkDailyDialogEmotionLinesIEMOCAPMELDMRDAOpenSubtitlesSEMAINESwitchboard-1 Corpus