Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking

This is the original PyTorch implemenation of SUMBT: Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking, Hwaran Lee*, Jinsik Lee*, and Tae-Yoon Kim, ACL 2019 (Short)

Requirements

• python 3.6
• pytorch >= 1.0
• Install python packages:
  • pip install -r requirements.txt

Usages

Data prepration & pre-procesisng

• Download corpus
  • WOZ2.0: download
  • MultiWOZ: download
    • Note: our experiments conducted on MultiWOZ 2.0 corpus
• Pre-process corpus
  • The download original corpus are loacated in data/$corpus/original
  • See data/$corpus/original/convert_to_glue_format.py
  • The pre-processed data are located in data/$corpus/

Train SUMBT

Please see run.sh

• Training and evaluation

python3 code/Main-multislot.py --do_train --do_eval --data_dir data/woz --bert_model bert-base-uncased --do_lower_case --task_name bert-gru-slot_query_multi --nbt rnn --output_dir exp-woz/model --target_slot all 

• Specifying slots (or domains) to train with the option --target_slots=$target_slots

  • e.g., For WOZ2.0, "0:1", "0:2", "1:2" (0=Area, 1=Food, 2=Pricerange)
  • e.g., For MultiWOZ, specify the domain name you want to exclude: "train" or "hotel"
  • If you want train with all slots, then --target_slots=all

• This code supports Multi-gpu training

  • CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$cuda python3 code/Main-multislot.py

Experiment results on MultiWOZ

• Command

python3 code/main-multislot.py --do_train --do_eval --num_train_epochs 300 --data_dir data/multiwoz --bert_model bert-base-uncased --do_lower_case --task_name bert-gru-sumbt --nbt rnn --output_dir exp-multiwoz/model --target_slot all --warmup_proportion 0.1 --learning_rate 1e-4 --train_batch_size 3 --eval_batch_size 16 --distance_metric euclidean --patience 15 --tf_dir tensorboard --hidden_dim 300 --max_label_length 32 --max_seq_length 64 --max_turn_length 22

• Experiment result

Hidden dim	Joint acc.	Slot acc.	Joint acc. (Restaurant)	Slot acc. (Restaurant)
300	0.48806	0.97329	0.82854	0.96537
600	0.49064	0.97290	0.82840	0.96475

Notes and Acknowledgements

The code is developed based on PyTorch BERT from https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-pretrained-BERT and The Annotated Transformer

Citation

@inproceedings{lee2019sumbt,
  title={SUMBT: Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking},
  author={Lee, Hwaran and Lee, Jinsik and Kim, Tae-Yoon},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages={5478--5483},
  year={2019}
}

Contact Information

Contact: Hwaran Lee ([email protected]), Jinsik Lee ([email protected]), Tae-Yoon Kim ([email protected])