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High-quality datasets for task-oriented dialog are crucial for the development of virtual assistants. Yet three of the most relevant large scale dialog datasets suffer from one common flaw: the dialog state update can be tracked, to a great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Alice Shoshana Jakobovits , Francesco Piccinno , Yasemin Altun

The goal of building intelligent dialogue systems has largely been separately pursued under two paradigms: task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which perform goal-oriented functions, and open-domain dialogue (ODD) systems, which focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tom Young , Frank Xing , Vlad Pandelea , Jinjie Ni , Erik Cambria

The research of knowledge-driven conversational systems is largely limited due to the lack of dialog data which consist of multi-turn conversations on multiple topics and with knowledge annotations. In this paper, we propose a Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hao Zhou , Chujie Zheng , Kaili Huang , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

We present a new approach to dialogue management using conversational knowledge graphs as core representation of the dialogue state. To this end, we introduce a new dataset, GraphWOZ, which comprises Wizard-of-Oz dialogues in which human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Nicholas Thomas Walker , Stefan Ultes , Pierre Lison

Practical dialog systems need to deal with various knowledge sources, noisy user expressions, and the shortage of annotated data. To better solve the above problems, we propose CGoDial, new challenging and comprehensive Chinese benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yinpei Dai , Wanwei He , Bowen Li , Yuchuan Wu , Zheng Cao , Zhongqi An , Jian Sun , Yongbin Li

Task-oriented dialogue research has mainly focused on a few popular languages like English and Chinese, due to the high dataset creation cost for a new language. To reduce the cost, we apply manual editing to automatically translated data.…

Much recent progress in task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems has been driven by available annotation data across multiple domains for training. Over the last few years, there has been a move towards data curation for multilingual ToD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Bosheng Ding , Junjie Hu , Lidong Bing , Sharifah Mahani Aljunied , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

One of the difficulties in training dialogue systems is the lack of training data. We explore the possibility of creating dialogue data through the interaction between a dialogue system and a user simulator. Our goal is to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Yinpei Dai , Florian Kreyssig , Bill Byrne

A commonly observed problem of the state-of-the-art natural language technologies, such as Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, is that their services do not extend to most developing countries' citizens due to language barriers. Such populations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Lei Zuo , Kun Qian , Bowen Yang , Zhou Yu

In this paper, we propose a Chinese multi-turn topic-driven conversation dataset, NaturalConv, which allows the participants to chat anything they want as long as any element from the topic is mentioned and the topic shift is smooth. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xiaoyang Wang , Chen Li , Jianqiao Zhao , Dong Yu

Human conversations are complicated and building a human-like dialogue agent is an extremely challenging task. With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, data-driven models become more and more prevalent which need a huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Meng Chen , Ruixue Liu , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Jingyan Zhou , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

We propose NeuralWOZ, a novel dialogue collection framework that uses model-based dialogue simulation. NeuralWOZ has two pipelined models, Collector and Labeler. Collector generates dialogues from (1) user's goal instructions, which are the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sungdong Kim , Minsuk Chang , Sang-Woo Lee

We present CoSQL, a corpus for building cross-domain, general-purpose database (DB) querying dialogue systems. It consists of 30k+ turns plus 10k+ annotated SQL queries, obtained from a Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) collection of 3k dialogues querying…

Recent dialogue datasets like MultiWOZ 2.1 and Taskmaster-1 constitute some of the most challenging tasks for present-day dialogue models and, therefore, are widely used for system evaluation. We identify several issues with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Johannes E. M. Mosig , Vladimir Vlasov , Alan Nichol

The MultiWOZ 2.0 dataset has greatly stimulated the research of task-oriented dialogue systems. However, its state annotations contain substantial noise, which hinders a proper evaluation of model performance. To address this issue, massive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Fanghua Ye , Jarana Manotumruksa , Emine Yilmaz

Teaching machines to accomplish tasks by conversing naturally with humans is challenging. Currently, developing task-oriented dialogue systems requires creating multiple components and typically this involves either a large amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Tsung-Hsien Wen , David Vandyke , Nikola Mrksic , Milica Gasic , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Pei-Hao Su , Stefan Ultes , Steve Young

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) benchmarks provide an important avenue to measure progress and develop better conversational agents. However, existing datasets for end-to-end ToD modeling are limited to a single language, hindering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

Task-oriented dialogue systems are essential for applications ranging from customer service to personal assistants and are widely used across various industries. However, developing effective multi-domain systems remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aman Gupta , Anirudh Ravichandran , Ziji Zhang , Swair Shah , Anurag Beniwal , Narayanan Sadagopan

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been reshaping Natural Language Processing (NLP) task in several domains. Their use in the field of Human Resources (HR) has still room for expansions and could be beneficial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Weijie Xu , Zicheng Huang , Wenxiang Hu , Xi Fang , Rajesh Kumar Cherukuri , Naumaan Nayyar , Lorenzo Malandri , Srinivasan H. Sengamedu

Data scarcity is a long-standing and crucial challenge that hinders quick development of task-oriented dialogue systems across multiple domains: task-oriented dialogue models are expected to learn grammar, syntax, dialogue reasoning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Paweł Budzianowski , Ivan Vulić