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This paper presents a comparative study of context management strategies for end-to-end Spoken Dialog State Tracking using Speech-LLMs. We systematically evaluate traditional multimodal context (combining text history and spoken current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nizar El Ghazal , Antoine Caubrière , Valentin Vielzeuf

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

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

The task of dialogue generation aims to automatically provide responses given previous utterances. Tracking dialogue states is an important ingredient in dialogue generation for estimating users' intention. However, the \emph{expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Xisen Jin , Wenqiang Lei , Zhaochun Ren , Hongshen Chen , Shangsong Liang , Yihong Zhao , Dawei Yin

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

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

This paper presents our novel method to encode word confusion networks, which can represent a rich hypothesis space of automatic speech recognition systems, via recurrent neural networks. We demonstrate the utility of our approach for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Glorianna Jagfeld , Ngoc Thang Vu

Dialogue state tracking, which estimates user goals and requests given the dialogue context, is an essential part of task-oriented dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose the Global-Locally Self-Attentive Dialogue State Tracker (GLAD),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Victor Zhong , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

The task of dialog management is commonly decomposed into two sequential subtasks: dialog state tracking and dialog policy learning. In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate the true dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Julien Perez

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to a wide variety of NLP tasks, but how to properly use them for dialogue state tracking has not been systematically investigated. In this paper, we study this problem from the perspectives of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Jeffrey Zhao , Mahdis Mahdieh , Ye Zhang , Yuan Cao , Yonghui Wu

In Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, correctly updating the system's understanding of the user's requests (\textit{a.k.a} dialogue state tracking) is key to a smooth interaction. Traditionally, TOD systems perform this update in three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Lucas Druart , Valentin Vielzeuf , Yannick Estève

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

This paper presents a hybrid dialog state tracker enhanced by trainable Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) for slot-filling dialog systems. Our architecture is inspired by previously proposed neural-network-based belief-tracking systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Miroslav Vodolán , Rudolf Kadlec , Jan Kleindienst

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

The latency in the current neural based dialogue state tracking models prohibits them from being used efficiently for deployment in production systems, albeit their highly accurate performance. This paper proposes a new scalable and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Elnaz Nouri , Ehsan Hosseini-Asl

Training machines to understand natural language and interact with humans is an elusive and essential task of artificial intelligence. A diversity of dialogue systems has been designed with the rapid development of deep learning techniques,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Training machines to understand natural language and interact with humans is an elusive and essential task of artificial intelligence. A diversity of dialogue systems has been designed with the rapid development of deep learning techniques,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

We present a novel approach to dialogue state tracking and referring expression resolution tasks. Successful contextual understanding of multi-turn spoken dialogues requires resolving referring expressions across turns and tracking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pushpendre Rastogi , Arpit Gupta , Tongfei Chen , Lambert Mathias

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

A dialog state tracker is an important component in modern spoken dialog systems. We present an incremental dialog state tracker, based on LSTM networks. It directly uses automatic speech recognition hypotheses to track the state. We also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Lukas Zilka , Filip Jurcicek