• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.134-140
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• 2018

A chat system is a computer program that understands user's miscellaneous utterances and generates appropriate responses. Sometimes a chat system needs to answer users' simple information-seeking questions. However, previous generative chat systems do not consider how to embed knowledge entities (i.e., subjects and objects in triple knowledge), essential elements for question-answering. The previous chat models have a disadvantage that they generate same responses although knowledge entities in users' utterances are changed. To alleviate this problem, we propose a knowledge entity embedding method for improving question-answering accuracies of a generative chat system. The proposed method uses a Siamese recurrent neural network for embedding knowledge entities and their synonyms. For experiments, we implemented a sequence-to-sequence model in which subjects and predicates are encoded and objects are decoded. The proposed embedding method showed 12.48% higher accuracies than the conventional embedding method based on a convolutional neural network.