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Dialog state tracking (DST) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system for conversational information access. A common practice in current dialog systems is to define the dialog state by a set of slot-value pairs. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yinpei Dai , Zhijian Ou , Dawei Ren , Pengfei Yu

Task oriented dialogue systems rely heavily on specialized dialogue state tracking (DST) modules for dynamically predicting user intent throughout the conversation. State-of-the-art DST models are typically trained in a supervised manner…

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a crucial component of task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems, keeps track of all important information pertaining to dialogue history: filling slots with the most probable values throughout the conversation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Han Zhou , Ignacio Iacobacci , Pasquale Minervini

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services. Motivated by the insight that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hyundong Cho , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Satwik Kottur , Jing Xu , Jonathan May , Chinnadhurai Sankar

The traditional Dialogue State Tracking (DST) problem aims to track user preferences and intents in user-agent conversations. While sufficient for task-oriented dialogue systems supporting narrow domain applications, the advent of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Chirag Shah , Mengting Wan , Jennifer Neville , Longqi Yang , Reid Andersen , Georg Buscher , Tara Safavi

Dialogue state tracking (DST) module is an important component for task-oriented dialog systems to understand users' goals and needs. Collecting dialogue state labels including slots and values can be costly, especially with the wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Yuting Yang , Wenqiang Lei , Pei Huang , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper introduces a novel approach to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language descriptions of dialogue states, moving beyond traditional slot-value representations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rafael Carranza , Mateo Alejandro Rojas

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a component of the task-oriented dialogue system. It is responsible for extracting and managing slot values according to dialogue utterances, where each slot represents an essential part of the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhoujian Sun , Zhengxing Huang , Nai Ding

Existing approaches to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) rely on turn level dialogue state annotations, which are expensive to acquire in large scale. In call centers, for tasks like managing bookings or subscriptions, the user goal can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shuailong Liang , Lahari Poddar , Gyuri Szarvas

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is of paramount importance in ensuring accurate tracking of user goals and system actions within task-oriented dialogue systems. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yujie Feng , Zexin Lu , Bo Liu , Liming Zhan , Xiao-Ming Wu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an essential sub-task for task-oriented dialogue systems. Recent work has focused on deep neural models for DST. However, the neural models require a large dataset for training. Furthermore, applying them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hyunmin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

Dialogue state tracking is the core part of a spoken dialogue system. It estimates the beliefs of possible user's goals at every dialogue turn. However, for most current approaches, it's difficult to scale to large dialogue domains. They…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Liliang Ren , Kaige Xie , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

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

We investigate the problem of multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking (DST) with open vocabulary, which aims to extract the state from the dialogue. Existing approaches usually concatenate previous dialogue state with dialogue history as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yan Zeng , Jian-Yun Nie

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

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

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is core research in dialogue systems and has received much attention. In addition, it is necessary to define a new problem that can deal with dialogue between users as a step toward the conversational AI that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Hyungtak Choi , Hyeonmok Ko , Gurpreet Kaur , Lohith Ravuru , Kiranmayi Gandikota , Manisha Jhawar , Simma Dharani , Pranamya Patil

Task-oriented dialog systems rely on dialog state tracking (DST) to monitor the user's goal during the course of an interaction. Multi-domain and open-vocabulary settings complicate the task considerably and demand scalable solutions. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

We consider a new perspective on dialog state tracking (DST), the task of estimating a user's goal through the course of a dialog. By formulating DST as a semantic parsing task over hierarchical representations, we can incorporate semantic…

Task-oriented dialogue systems often employ a Dialogue State Tracker (DST) to successfully complete conversations. Recent state-of-the-art DST implementations rely on schemata of diverse services to improve model robustness and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Eleftherios Kapelonis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos