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Task oriented dialog agents provide a natural language interface for users to complete their goal. Dialog State Tracking (DST), which is often a core component of these systems, tracks the system's understanding of the user's goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Adarsh Kumar , Peter Ku , Anuj Kumar Goyal , Angeliki Metallinou , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a pivotal component in task-oriented dialogue systems. While it is relatively easy for a DST model to capture belief states in short conversations, the task of DST becomes more challenging as the length of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ye Zhang , Yuan Cao , Mahdis Mahdieh , Jeffrey Zhao , Yonghui Wu

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

To facilitate zero-shot generalization in taskoriented dialog, this paper proposes Language Models as Data (LAD). LAD is a paradigm for creating diverse and accurate synthetic data which conveys the necessary structural constraints and can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Shikib Mehri , Yasemin Altun , Maxine Eskenazi

End-to-end multi-talker automatic speech recognition (MTASR) faces significant challenges in accurately transcribing overlapping speech. A critical bottleneck is that speaker-specific acoustic characteristics, which are essential for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yujie Guo , Jiaming Zhou , Yuhang Jia , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

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

Recent efforts in Dialogue State Tracking (DST) for task-oriented dialogues have progressed toward open-vocabulary or generation-based approaches where the models can generate slot value candidates from the dialogue history itself. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Hung Le , Richard Socher , Steven C. H. Hoi

Tracking the state of the conversation is a central component in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. One such approach for tracking the dialogue state is slot carryover, where a model makes a binary decision if a slot from the context is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Tongfei Chen , Chetan Naik , Hua He , Pushpendre Rastogi , Lambert Mathias

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a key component of task-oriented conversation systems, represents user intentions by determining the values of pre-defined slots in an ongoing dialogue. Existing approaches use hand-crafted templates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Praveen Venkateswaran , Evelyn Duesterwald , Vatche Isahagian

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

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

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

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are required to identify key information from conversations for the completion of given tasks. Such information is conventionally specified in terms of intents and slots contained in task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jeffrey Zhao , Raghav Gupta , Yuan Cao , Dian Yu , Mingqiu Wang , Harrison Lee , Abhinav Rastogi , Izhak Shafran , Yonghui Wu

In task-oriented dialogue systems the dialogue state tracker (DST) component is responsible for predicting the state of the dialogue based on the dialogue history. Current DST approaches rely on a predefined domain ontology, a fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-task learning of language understanding (LU) and dialogue state tracking (DST) in task-oriented dialogue systems. Multi-task training enables the sharing of the neural network layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Abhinav Rastogi , Raghav Gupta , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Recent works have shown that generative data augmentation, where synthetic samples generated from deep generative models complement the training dataset, benefit NLP tasks. In this work, we extend this approach to the task of dialog state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Kang Min Yoo , Hanbit Lee , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Walter Chang , Sang-goo Lee

Vision-language tracking has gained increasing attention in many scenarios. This task simultaneously deals with visual and linguistic information to localize objects in videos. Despite its growing utility, the development of vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xingyu Luo , Yidong Cai , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management. Common practice has been to treat it as a problem of classifying dialogue content into a set of pre-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Lizi Liao , Yunshan Ma , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

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