Interactive Semantic Parsing for If-Then Recipes via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

08/21/2018
by   Ziyu Yao, et al.
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Given a text description, most existing semantic parsers synthesize a program in one shot. However, in reality, the description can be ambiguous or incomplete, solely based on which it is quite challenging to produce a correct program. In this paper, we investigate interactive semantic parsing for If-Then recipes where an agent can interact with users to resolve ambiguities. We develop a hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) based agent that can improve the parsing performance with minimal questions to users. Results under both simulation and human evaluation show that our agent substantially outperforms non-interactive semantic parsers and rule-based agents.

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