PRIDE: Predicting Relationships in Conversations

Anna Tigunova, Paramita Mirza, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum


Abstract
Automatically extracting interpersonal relationships of conversation interlocutors can enrich personal knowledge bases to enhance personalized search, recommenders and chatbots. To infer speakers’ relationships from dialogues we propose PRIDE, a neural multi-label classifier, based on BERT and Transformer for creating a conversation representation. PRIDE utilizes dialogue structure and augments it with external knowledge about speaker features and conversation style. Unlike prior works, we address multi-label prediction of fine-grained relationships. We release large-scale datasets, based on screenplays of movies and TV shows, with directed relationships of conversation participants. Extensive experiments on both datasets show superior performance of PRIDE compared to the state-of-the-art baselines.
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2021.emnlp-main.380
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4636–4650
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.380
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.380
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Anna Tigunova, Paramita Mirza, Andrew Yates, and Gerhard Weikum. 2021. PRIDE: Predicting Relationships in Conversations. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4636–4650, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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