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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

We present our work on Track 4 in the Dialogue System Technology Challenges 8 (DSTC8). The DSTC8-Track 4 aims to perform dialogue state tracking (DST) under the zero-shot settings, in which the model needs to generalize on unseen service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling , Jia-Chen Gu , Quan Liu

A Dialogue State Tracker is a key component in dialogue systems which estimates the beliefs of possible user goals at each dialogue turn. Deep learning approaches using recurrent neural networks have shown state-of-the-art performance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. DST estimates the user's goal at each user turn given the interaction until then. State of the art approaches for state tracking rely on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is core research in dialogue systems and has received much attention. In addition, it is necessary to define a new problem that can deal with dialogue between users as a step toward the conversational AI that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Hyungtak Choi , Hyeonmok Ko , Gurpreet Kaur , Lohith Ravuru , Kiranmayi Gandikota , Manisha Jhawar , Simma Dharani , Pranamya Patil

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services. Motivated by the insight that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hyundong Cho , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Satwik Kottur , Jing Xu , Jonathan May , Chinnadhurai Sankar

Task oriented dialog agents provide a natural language interface for users to complete their goal. Dialog State Tracking (DST), which is often a core component of these systems, tracks the system's understanding of the user's goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Adarsh Kumar , Peter Ku , Anuj Kumar Goyal , Angeliki Metallinou , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate a compact representation of the current dialog status from a sequence of noisy observations produced by the speech recognition and the natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Julien Perez , Fei Liu

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

Dialog State Tracking (DST), an integral part of modern dialog systems, aims to track user preferences and constraints (slots) in task-oriented dialogs. In real-world settings with constantly changing services, DST systems must generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Shuyang Li , Jin Cao , Mukund Sridhar , Henghui Zhu , Shang-Wen Li , Wael Hamza , Julian McAuley

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

A typical conversation comprises of multiple turns between participants where they go back-and-forth between different topics. At each user turn, dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to estimate user's goal by processing the current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Sanuj Sharma , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Ruihong Huang

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

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is a core component of virtual assistants such as Alexa or Siri. To accomplish various tasks, these assistants need to support an increasing number of services and APIs. The Schema-Guided State Tracking track…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Pavel Gulyaev , Eugenia Elistratova , Vasily Konovalov , Yuri Kuratov , Leonid Pugachev , Mikhail Burtsev

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

The primary purpose of dialogue state tracking (DST), a critical component of an end-to-end conversational system, is to build a model that responds well to real-world situations. Although we often change our minds from time to time during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Takyoung Kim , Yukyung Lee , Hoonsang Yoon , Pilsung Kang , Junseong Bang , Misuk Kim

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

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a key component of task-oriented conversation systems, represents user intentions by determining the values of pre-defined slots in an ongoing dialogue. Existing approaches use hand-crafted templates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Praveen Venkateswaran , Evelyn Duesterwald , Vatche Isahagian

Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking (DST) addresses the challenge of acquiring and annotating task-oriented dialogues, which can be time-consuming and costly. However, DST extends beyond simple slot-filling and requires effective updating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yuxiang Wu , Guanting Dong , Weiran Xu
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