This paper introduces the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9). This edition of the DSTC focuses on applying end-to-end dialog technologies for four distinct tasks in dialog systems, namely, 1. Task-oriented dialog Modeling with unstructured knowledge access, 2. Multi-domain task-oriented dialog, 3. Interactive evaluation of dialog, and 4. Situated interactive multi-modal dialog. This paper describes the task definition, provided datasets, baselines and evaluation set-up for each track. We also summarize the results of the submitted systems to highlight the overall trends of the state-of-the-art technologies for the tasks.
@article{arxiv.2011.06486,
title = {Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9},
author = {Chulaka Gunasekara and Seokhwan Kim and Luis Fernando D'Haro and Abhinav Rastogi and Yun-Nung Chen and Mihail Eric and Behnam Hedayatnia and Karthik Gopalakrishnan and Yang Liu and Chao-Wei Huang and Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Jinchao Li and Qi Zhu and Lingxiao Luo and Lars Liden and Kaili Huang and Shahin Shayandeh and Runze Liang and Baolin Peng and Zheng Zhang and Swadheen Shukla and Minlie Huang and Jianfeng Gao and Shikib Mehri and Yulan Feng and Carla Gordon and Seyed Hossein Alavi and David Traum and Maxine Eskenazi and Ahmad Beirami and Eunjoon and Cho and Paul A. Crook and Ankita De and Alborz Geramifard and Satwik Kottur and Seungwhan Moon and Shivani Poddar and Rajen Subba},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06486},
year = {2020}
}