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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) models often employ intricate neural network architectures, necessitating substantial training data, and their inference process lacks transparency. This paper proposes a method that extracts linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xiaohan Feng , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

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

An indispensable component in task-oriented dialogue systems is the dialogue state tracker, which keeps track of users' intentions in the course of conversation. The typical approach towards this goal is to fill in multiple pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Fanghua Ye , Jarana Manotumruksa , Qiang Zhang , Shenghui Li , Emine Yilmaz

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is an essential element of conversational AI with the objective of deeply understanding the conversation context and leading it toward answering user requests. Due to high demands for open-domain and multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher , Saeedeh Momtazi

Recent works on end-to-end trainable neural network based approaches have demonstrated state-of-the-art results on dialogue state tracking. The best performing approaches estimate a probability distribution over all possible slot values.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

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

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to record user queries and goals during a conversational interaction achieved by maintaining a predefined set of slots and their corresponding values. Current approaches decide slot values opaquely, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lin Xu , Ningxin Peng , Daquan Zhou , See-Kiong Ng , Jinlan Fu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to convert the dialogue history into dialogue states which consist of slot-value pairs. As condensed structural information memorizing all history information, the dialogue state in the last turn is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haoning Zhang , Junwei Bao , Haipeng Sun , Youzheng Wu , Wenye Li , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong He

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

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

When a human communicates with a machine using natural language on the web and online, how can it understand the human's intention and semantic context of their talk? This is an important AI task as it enables the machine to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

A practical dialogue system requires the capacity for ongoing skill acquisition and adaptability to new tasks while preserving prior knowledge. However, current methods for Continual Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a crucial function of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Yujie Feng , Xu Chu , Yongxin Xu , Guangyuan Shi , Bo Liu , Xiao-Ming Wu

We present a multi-task learning framework to enable the training of one universal incremental dialogue processing model with four tasks of disfluency detection, language modelling, part-of-speech tagging, and utterance segmentation in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Morteza Rohanian , Julian Hough

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

Scalability for handling unknown slot values is a important problem in dialogue state tracking (DST). As far as we know, previous scalable DST approaches generally rely on either the candidate generation from slot tagging output or the span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Puhai Yang , Heyan Huang , Xianling Mao

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

Zero-shot dialogue understanding aims to enable dialogue to track the user's needs without any training data, which has gained increasing attention. In this work, we investigate the understanding ability of ChatGPT for zero-shot dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wenbo Pan , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is crucial for understanding user needs and executing appropriate system actions in task-oriented dialogues. Majority of existing DST methods are designed to work within predefined ontologies and assume the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Abdulfattah Safa , Gözde Gül Şahin

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays a key role in task-oriented dialogue systems to monitor the user's goal. In general, there are two strategies to track a dialogue state: predicting it from scratch and updating it from previous state. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Puhai Yang , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao