%0 Journal Article %T Learning bi %A Dapeng Li %A Jing Geng %A Longxing Yang %A Shuliang Wang %A Tianru Dai %J International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems %@ 1729-8814 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/1729881419841930 %X Multi-turn response selection is essential to retrieval-based chatbots. The task requires multi-turn response selection model to match a response candidate with a conversation context. Existing methods may lose relationship features in the context. In this article, we propose an improved method that extends the learning granularity of the multi-turn response selection model to enhance the model¡¯s ability to learn relationship features of utterances in the context, which is a key to understand a conversation context for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots. The experimental results show that our proposed method significantly improves sequential matching network for multi-turn response selection in retrieval-based chatbots %K Learning bi-utterance %K dialogue system %K deep learning %K information retrieval %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1729881419841930