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State-of-the-art task-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on task-specific ontologies for fulfilling user queries. The majority of task-oriented dialogue data, such as customer service recordings, comes without ontology and annotation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Renato Vukovic , David Arps , Carel van Niekerk , Benjamin Matthias Ruppik , Hsien-Chin Lin , Michael Heck , Milica Gašić

We present a natural language generator based on the sequence-to-sequence approach that can be trained to produce natural language strings as well as deep syntax dependency trees from input dialogue acts, and we use it to directly compare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ondřej Dušek , Filip Jurčíček

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

Task oriented dialog systems typically first parse user utterances to semantic frames comprised of intents and slots. Previous work on task oriented intent and slot-filling work has been restricted to one intent per query and one slot label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Sonal Gupta , Rushin Shah , Mrinal Mohit , Anuj Kumar , Mike Lewis

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

Recent open-domain dialogue models have brought numerous breakthroughs. However, building a chat system is not scalable since it often requires a considerable volume of human-human dialogue data, especially when enforcing features such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sanghwan Bae , Donghyun Kwak , Sungdong Kim , Donghoon Ham , Soyoung Kang , Sang-Woo Lee , Woomyoung Park

Dialogue state tracking plays a crucial role in extracting information in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, preceding research are limited to textual modalities, primarily due to the shortage of authentic human audio datasets. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jihyun Lee , Yejin Jeon , Wonjun Lee , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

A key component of modern conversational systems is the Dialogue State Tracker (or DST), which models a user's goals and needs. Toward building more robust and reliable DSTs, we introduce a prompt-based learning approach to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xiangjue Dong , Yun He , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

The challenge of defining a slot schema to represent the state of a task-oriented dialogue system is addressed by Slot Schema Induction (SSI), which aims to automatically induce slots from unlabeled dialogue data. Whereas previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 James D. Finch , Boxin Zhao , Jinho D. Choi

This paper presents an ontology-aware pretrained language model (OPAL) for end-to-end task-oriented dialogue (TOD). Unlike chit-chat dialogue models, task-oriented dialogue models fulfill at least two task-specific modules: dialogue state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhi Chen , Yuncong Liu , Lu Chen , Su Zhu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Dialogue state modules are a useful component in a task-oriented dialogue system. Traditional methods find dialogue states by manually labeling training corpora, upon which neural models are trained. However, the labeling process can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qingkai Min , Libo Qin , Zhiyang Teng , Xiao Liu , Yue Zhang

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

The lack of large and diverse discourse treebanks hinders the application of data-driven approaches, such as deep-learning, to RST-style discourse parsing. In this work, we present a novel scalable methodology to automatically generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini

Recently, researchers have explored using the encoder-decoder framework to tackle dialogue state tracking (DST), which is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. However, they regard a multi-turn dialogue as a flat sequence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Linhao Zhang , Houfeng Wang

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

State-of-the-art slot filling models for goal-oriented human/machine conversational language understanding systems rely on deep learning methods. While multi-task training of such models alleviates the need for large in-domain annotated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ankur Bapna , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

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

An ideal dialogue system requires continuous skill acquisition and adaptation to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. Dialogue State Tracking (DST), vital in these systems, often involves learning new services and confronting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yujie Feng , Bo Liu , Xiaoyu Dong , Zexin Lu , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

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), which is the process of inferring user goals by estimating belief states given the dialogue history, plays a critical role in task-oriented dialogue systems. A coreference phenomenon observed in multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ting Han , Chongxuan Huang , Wei Peng