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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

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. DST estimates the user's goal at each user turn given the interaction until then. State of the art approaches for state tracking rely on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

In task-oriented multi-turn dialogue systems, dialogue state refers to a compact representation of the user goal in the context of dialogue history. Dialogue state tracking (DST) is to estimate the dialogue state at each turn. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Yanbin Zhao , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, collecting a large amount of turn-by-turn annotated dialogue data is costly and inefficient. In this paper, we propose a novel turn-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Fanghua Ye , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

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

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

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

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

As an essential component in task-oriented dialogue systems, dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to track human-machine interactions and generate state representations for managing the dialogue. Representations of dialogue states are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ruolin Su , Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to predict the current dialogue state given the dialogue history. Existing methods generally exploit the utterances of all dialogue turns to assign value for each slot. This could lead to suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yifan Wang , Jing Zhao , Junwei Bao , Chaoqun Duan , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a crucial module in dialogue management. It is usually cast as a supervised training problem, which is not convenient for on-line optimization. In this paper, a novel companion teaching based deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Xiang Zhou , Kai Yu

The performance of task-oriented dialogue models is strongly tied to how well they track dialogue states, which records and updates user information across multi-turn interactions. However, current multi-domain DST encounters two key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoxiang Su , Ruiyu Fang , Liting Jiang , Xiaomeng Huang , Shuangyong Song

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

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding, or SLU, refers to the task of parsing natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Making use of context from prior dialogue history holds the key to more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Raghav Gupta , Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In task-oriented dialogue systems, Dialogue State Tracking (DST) aims to extract users' intentions from the dialogue history. Currently, most existing approaches suffer from error propagation and are unable to dynamically select relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jing Xu , Dandan Song , Chong Liu , Siu Cheung Hui , Fei Li , Qiang Ju , Xiaonan He , Jian Xie

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

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

Dialog state tracking (DST) suffers from severe data sparsity. While many natural language processing (NLP) tasks benefit from transfer learning and multi-task learning, in dialog these methods are limited by the amount of available data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to extract essential information from multi-turn dialogue situations and take appropriate actions. A belief state, one of the core pieces of information, refers to the subject and its specific content, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Takyoung Kim , Hoonsang Yoon , Yukyung Lee , Pilsung Kang , Misuk Kim
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