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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

Recent studies in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage historical information to determine states which are generally represented as slot-value pairs. However, most of them have limitations to efficiently exploit relevant context due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yong Shan , Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou

While communicating with a user, a task-oriented dialogue system has to track the user's needs at each turn according to the conversation history. This process called dialogue state tracking (DST) is crucial because it directly informs the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Léo Jacqmin , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Benoit Favre

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

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

In this work, we approach spoken Dialogue State Tracking (DST) by bridging the representation spaces of speech encoders and LLMs via a small connector module, with a focus on fully open-sourced and open-data components (WavLM-large, OLMo).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Šimon Sedláček , Bolaji Yusuf , Ján Švec , Pradyoth Hegde , Santosh Kesiraju , Oldřich Plchot , Jan Černocký

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is at the heart of task-oriented dialogue systems. However, the scarcity of labeled data is an obstacle to building accurate and robust state tracking systems that work across a variety of domains. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shuyang Gao , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Di Jin , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Dialog state tracking is used to estimate the current belief state of a dialog given all the preceding conversation. Machine reading comprehension, on the other hand, focuses on building systems that read passages of text and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

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

Recent research on dialogue state tracking (DST) focuses on methods that allow few- and zero-shot transfer to new domains or schemas. However, performance gains heavily depend on aggressive data augmentation and fine-tuning of ever larger…

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

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

Although there have been remarkable advances in dialogue systems through the dialogue systems technology competition (DSTC), it remains one of the key challenges to building a robust task-oriented dialogue system with a speech interface.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jaeseok Yoon , Seunghyun Hwang , Ran Han , Jeonguk Bang , Kee-Eung Kim

Zero-shot cross-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) enables us to handle task-oriented dialogue in unseen domains without the expense of collecting in-domain data. In this paper, we propose a slot description enhanced generative approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhaojiang Lin , Bing Liu , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Zhenpeng Zhou , Zhiguang Wang , Zhou Yu , Andrea Madotto , Eunjoon Cho , Rajen Subba

We consider a new perspective on dialog state tracking (DST), the task of estimating a user's goal through the course of a dialog. By formulating DST as a semantic parsing task over hierarchical representations, we can incorporate semantic…

In a task-oriented dialog system, the goal of dialog state tracking (DST) is to monitor the state of the conversation from the dialog history. Recently, many deep learning based methods have been proposed for the task. Despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tuan Manh Lai , Quan Hung Tran , Trung Bui , Daisuke Kihara

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a core component in task-oriented dialog systems. Existing approaches for DST mainly fall into one of two categories, namely, ontology-based and ontology-free methods. An ontology-based method selects a value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Jian-Guo Zhang , Kazuma Hashimoto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an update in the task domain, the dialogue system usually needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Tagyoung Chung , Jeremie Lecomte , Arindam Mandal , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

This paper proposes an improvement to the existing data-driven Neural Belief Tracking (NBT) framework for Dialogue State Tracking (DST). The existing NBT model uses a hand-crafted belief state update mechanism which involves an expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Nikola Mrkšić , Ivan Vulić