English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog

200 papers

Recent advances in deep learning show that end-to-end speech to text translation model is a promising approach to direct the speech translation field. In this work, we provide an overview of different end-to-end architectures, as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Parnia Bahar , Tobias Bieschke , Hermann Ney

Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g., relations. In this work, we propose a novel dialogue model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stefan Ultes , Paweł\ Budzianowski , Iñigo Casanueva , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yen-Chen Wu , Steve Young , Milica Gašić

Interest in dialog systems has grown substantially in the past decade. By extension, so too has interest in developing and improving intent classification and slot-filling models, which are two components that are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

As multi-turn dialogues with large language models (LLMs) grow longer and more complex, how can users better evaluate and review progress on their conversational goals? We present OnGoal, an LLM chat interface that helps users better manage…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Adam Coscia , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Alex Endert

We propose a unified Implicit Dialog framework for goal-oriented, information seeking tasks of Conversational Search applications. It aims to enable dialog interactions with domain data without replying on explicitly encoded the rules but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Song Feng , R. Chulaka Gunasekara , Sunil Shashidhara , Kshitij P. Fadnis , Lazaros C. Polymenakos

Dialog response ranking is used to rank response candidates by considering their relation to the dialog history. Although researchers have addressed this concept for open-domain dialogs, little attention has been focused on task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Junki Ohmura , Maxine Eskenazi

Task-oriented dialog systems empower users to accomplish their goals by facilitating intuitive and expressive natural language interactions. State-of-the-art approaches in task-oriented dialog systems formulate the problem as a conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Adib Mosharrof , M. H. Maqbool , A. B. Siddique

The training of task-oriented dialogue systems is often confronted with the lack of annotated data. In contrast to previous work which augments training data through expensive crowd-sourcing efforts, we propose four different automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jun Quan , Deyi Xiong

Current dialogue systems are not very engaging for users, especially when trained end-to-end without relying on proactive reengaging scripted strategies. Zhang et al. (2018) showed that the engagement level of end-to-end dialogue models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré , Samuel Humeau , Martin Raison , Antoine Bordes

Reinforcement learning is a promising framework for solving control problems, but its use in practical situations is hampered by the fact that reward functions are often difficult to engineer. Specifying goals and tasks for autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Justin Fu , Anoop Korattikara , Sergey Levine , Sergio Guadarrama

Dialogue management (DM) decides the next action of a dialogue system according to the current dialogue state, and thus plays a central role in task-oriented dialogue systems. Since dialogue management requires to have access to not only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang , Zhongzhou Zhao , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen , Xiaoyan Zhu

Recently, the development of large language models (LLMs) has been significantly enhanced the question answering and dialogue generation, and makes them become increasingly popular in current practical scenarios. While unlike the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhiyuan Hu , Yue Feng , Yang Deng , Zekun Li , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu , Bryan Hooi

Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coordinate interleaved goals, maintain long-horizon context, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yifei Zhang , Hooshang Nayyeri , Rinat Khaziev , Emine Yilmaz , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Hari Thadakamalla

Recently, end-to-end learning frameworks are gaining prevalence in the field of robot control. These frameworks input states/images and directly predict the torques or the action parameters. However, these approaches are often critiqued due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta

End-to-end spoken dialogue state tracking (DST) is made difficult by the tandem of having to handle speech input and data scarcity. Combining speech foundation encoders and large language models has been proposed in recent work as to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Katia Vendrame , Bolaji Yusuf , Santosh Kesiraju , Šimon Sedláček , Oldřich Plchot , Jan Černocký

Speaker-independent speech recognition systems trained with data from many users are generally robust against speaker variability and work well for a large population of speakers. However, these systems do not always generalize well for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Khe Chai Sim , Petr Zadrazil , Françoise Beaufays

Pre-training models have been proved effective for a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a novel dialogue generation pre-training framework to support various kinds of conversations, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Over the last several years, end-to-end neural conversational agents have vastly improved in their ability to carry a chit-chat conversation with humans. However, these models are often trained on large datasets from the internet, and as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Emily Dinan , Gavin Abercrombie , A. Stevie Bergman , Shannon Spruit , Dirk Hovy , Y-Lan Boureau , Verena Rieser

Data scarcity is one of the main problems when it comes to real-world applications of transformer-based models. This is especially evident for task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which require specialized datasets, that are usually not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sebastian Steindl , Ulrich Schäfer , Bernd Ludwig

Large language models (LLMs) have been used for diverse tasks in natural language processing (NLP), yet remain under-explored for task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), especially for end-to-end TODS. We present InstructTODS, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Willy Chung , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Bryan Wilie , Holy Lovenia , Pascale Fung