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An intrinsic aspect of every conversation is the way talk-time is shared between multiple speakers. Conversations can be balanced, with each speaker claiming a similar amount of talk-time, or imbalanced when one talks disproportionately.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kaixiang Zhang , Justine Zhang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Recently, resources and tasks were proposed to go beyond state tracking in dialogue systems. An example is the frame tracking task, which requires recording multiple frames, one for each user goal set during the dialogue. This allows a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Hannes Schulz , Jeremie Zumer , Layla El Asri , Shikhar Sharma

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

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

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

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

An important yet rarely tackled problem in dialogue state tracking (DST) is scalability for dynamic ontology (e.g., movie, restaurant) and unseen slot values. We focus on a specific condition, where the ontology is unknown to the state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Guan-Lin Chao , Ian Lane

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

We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

Turn-taking prediction models are essential components in spoken dialogue systems and conversational robots. Recent approaches leverage transformer-based architectures to predict speech activity continuously and in real-time. In this study,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Koji Inoue , Mikey Elmers , Yahui Fu , Zi Haur Pang , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara

Recent works in dialogue state tracking (DST) focus on an open vocabulary-based setting to resolve scalability and generalization issues of the predefined ontology-based approaches. However, they are inefficient in that they predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sungdong Kim , Sohee Yang , Gyuwan Kim , Sang-Woo Lee

A major bottleneck for building statistical spoken dialogue systems for new domains and applications is the need for large amounts of training data. To address this problem, we adopt the multi-dimensional approach to dialogue management and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Simon Keizer , Norbert Braunschweiler , Svetlana Stoyanchev , Rama Doddipatla

This paper is concerned with dialogue state tracking (DST) in a task-oriented dialogue system. Building a DST module that is highly effective is still a challenging issue, although significant progresses have been made recently. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yue Feng , Yang Wang , Hang Li

Task-oriented conversational systems often use dialogue state tracking to represent the user's intentions, which involves filling in values of pre-defined slots. Many approaches have been proposed, often using task-specific architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Chia-Hsuan Lee , Hao Cheng , Mari Ostendorf

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 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

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

With the significant progress of speech technologies, spoken goal-oriented dialogue systems are becoming increasingly popular. One of the main modules of a dialogue system is typically the dialogue policy, which is responsible for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Daniel Roncel , Federico Costa , Javier Hernando

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is designed to monitor the evolving dialogue state in the conversations and plays a pivotal role in developing task-oriented dialogue systems. However, obtaining the annotated data for the DST task is usually a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Cheng Niu , Xingguang Wang , Xuxin Cheng , Juntong Song , Tong Zhang

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