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A key component of modern conversational systems is the Dialogue State Tracker (or DST), which models a user's goals and needs. Toward building more robust and reliable DSTs, we introduce a prompt-based learning approach to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xiangjue Dong , Yun He , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an essential component in task-oriented dialogue systems, which estimates user goals at every dialogue turn. However, most previous approaches usually suffer from the following problems. Many discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Qingbin Liu , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Shengping Liu , Jun Zhao

We tackle the Dialogue Belief State Tracking(DST) problem of task-oriented conversational systems. Recent approaches to this problem leveraging Transformer-based models have yielded great results. However, training these models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Debjoy Saha , Bishal Santra , Pawan Goyal

In dialogue state tracking, dialogue history is a crucial material, and its utilization varies between different models. However, no matter how the dialogue history is used, each existing model uses its own consistent dialogue history…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jinyu Guo , Kai Shuang , Jijie Li , Zihan Wang , Yixuan Liu

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), which is the process of inferring user goals by estimating belief states given the dialogue history, plays a critical role in task-oriented dialogue systems. A coreference phenomenon observed in multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ting Han , Chongxuan Huang , Wei Peng

While several state-of-the-art approaches to dialogue state tracking (DST) have shown promising performances on several benchmarks, there is still a significant performance gap between seen slot values (i.e., values that occur in both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaohui Song , Liangjun Zang , Yipeng Su , Xing Wu , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a core component in task-oriented dialog systems. Existing approaches for DST mainly fall into one of two categories, namely, ontology-based and ontology-free methods. An ontology-based method selects a value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Jian-Guo Zhang , Kazuma Hashimoto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

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

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

Designed for tracking user goals in dialogues, a dialogue state tracker is an essential component in a dialogue system. However, the research of dialogue state tracking has largely been limited to unimodality, in which slots and slot values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Hung Le , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

Most recently proposed approaches in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage the context and the last dialogue states to track current dialogue states, which are often slot-value pairs. Although the context contains the complete dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jingyao Zhou , Haipang Wu , Zehao Lin , Guodun Li , Yin Zhang

Goal-oriented chatbots are essential for automating user tasks, such as booking flights or making restaurant reservations. A key component of these systems is Dialogue State Tracking (DST), which interprets user intent and maintains the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sejin Lee , Dongha Kim , Min Song

Zero-shot cross-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) enables us to handle task-oriented dialogue in unseen domains without the expense of collecting in-domain data. In this paper, we propose a slot description enhanced generative approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhaojiang Lin , Bing Liu , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Zhenpeng Zhou , Zhiguang Wang , Zhou Yu , Andrea Madotto , Eunjoon Cho , Rajen Subba

Recent studies in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage historical information to determine states which are generally represented as slot-value pairs. However, most of them have limitations to efficiently exploit relevant context due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yong Shan , Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an update in the task domain, the dialogue system usually needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Tagyoung Chung , Jeremie Lecomte , Arindam Mandal , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In a spoken dialogue system, dialogue state tracker (DST) components track the state of the conversation by updating a distribution of values associated with each of the slots being tracked for the current user turn, using the interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Rylan Conway , Lambert Mathias

Continual learning is crucial for dialog state tracking (DST) in dialog systems, since requirements from users for new functionalities are often encountered. However, most of existing continual learning methods for DST require task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Hong Liu , Yucheng Cai , Yuan Zhou , Zhijian Ou , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST), reducing the need for task-specific training. However, conventional DST benchmarks primarily focus on structured user-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sangmin Song , Juhwan Choi , JungMin Yun , YoungBin Kim

Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) model tracks user requests in dialogue with reliable accuracy even with a small amount of data. In this paper, we introduce an ontology-free few-shot DST with self-feeding belief state input. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jihyun Lee , Gary Geunbae Lee

With the demanding need for deploying dialogue systems in new domains with less cost, zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST), which tracks user's requirements in task-oriented dialogues without training on desired domains, draws attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ruolin Su , Jingfeng Yang , Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang