A Unified Approach to Entity-Centric Context Tracking in Social Conversations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12409v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:38:13 GMT
• Title: A Unified Approach to Entity-Centric Context Tracking in Social Conversations
• Abstract summary: In human-human conversations, Context Tracking deals with identifying important entities and keeping track of their properties and relationships. We release Contrack, a large scale human-human conversation corpus for context tracking with people and location annotations. We open-source a neural network architecture for context tracking.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In human-human conversations, Context Tracking deals with identifying important entities and keeping track of their properties and relationships. This is a challenging problem that encompasses several subtasks such as slot tagging, coreference resolution, resolving plural mentions and entity linking. We approach this problem as an end-to-end modeling task where the conversational context is represented by an entity repository containing the entity references mentioned so far, their properties and the relationships between them. The repository is updated turn-by-turn, thus making training and inference computationally efficient even for long conversations. This paper lays the groundwork for an investigation of this framework in two ways. First, we release Contrack, a large scale human-human conversation corpus for context tracking with people and location annotations. It contains over 7000 conversations with an average of 11.8 turns, 5.8 entities and 15.2 references per conversation. Second, we open-source a neural network architecture for context tracking. Finally we compare this network to state-of-the-art approaches for the subtasks it subsumes and report results on the involved tradeoffs.

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