Conversational Semantic Parsing using Dynamic Context Graphs
Submission Type: Regular Long Paper
Submission Track: Question Answering
Submission Track 2: Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc.
Keywords: semantic parsing, SPARQL, Knowledge Graphs, Conversational Semantic Parsing
TL;DR: We propose dynamic graphs based method for conversational semantic parsing over general purpose large-scale knowledge graphs.
Abstract: In this paper we consider the task of conversational semantic parsing over general purpose knowledge graphs (KGs) with millions of entities, and thousands of relation-types. We focus on models which are capable of interactively mapping user utterances into executable logical forms (e.g., Sparql) in the context of the conversational history. Our key idea is to represent information about an utterance and its context via a subgraph which is created dynamically, i.e., the number of nodes varies per utterance. Rather than treating the subgraph as a sequence, we exploit its underlying structure and encode it with a graph neural network which further allows us to represent a large number of (unseen) nodes. Experimental results show that dynamic context modeling is superior to static approaches, delivering performance improvements across the board (i.e., for simple and complex questions). Our results further confirm that modeling the structure of context is better at processing discourse information, (i.e., at handling ellipsis and resolving coreference) and longer interactions.
Submission Number: 2976
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