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Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) model tracks user requests in dialogue with reliable accuracy even with a small amount of data. In this paper, we introduce an ontology-free few-shot DST with self-feeding belief state input. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jihyun Lee , Gary Geunbae Lee

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

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

In task-oriented dialogue systems the dialogue state tracker (DST) component is responsible for predicting the state of the dialogue based on the dialogue history. Current DST approaches rely on a predefined domain ontology, a fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

Schema-guided dialogue state trackers can generalise to new domains without further training, yet they are sensitive to the writing style of the schemata. Augmenting the training set with human or synthetic schema paraphrases improves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alexandru Coca , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Jinghong Chen , Weizhe Lin , Weixuan Zhang , Tisha Anders , Bill Byrne

Current medical AI systems often fail to replicate real-world clinical reasoning, as they are predominantly trained and evaluated on static text and question-answer tasks. These tuning methods and benchmarks overlook critical aspects like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zijie Liu , Xinyu Zhao , Jie Peng , Zhuangdi Zhu , Qingyu Chen , Kaidi Xu , Xia Hu , Tianlong Chen

This work investigates the task-oriented dialogue problem in mixed-domain settings. We study the effect of alternating between different domains in sequences of dialogue turns using two related state-of-the-art dialogue systems. We first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Tho Luong Chi , Phuong Le-Hong

Dialogue State Tracking is central to multi-domain task-oriented dialogue systems, responsible for extracting information from user utterances. We present a novel hybrid architecture that augments GPT-2 with representations derived from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Weizhe Lin , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Bill Byrne

Over-dependence on domain ontology and lack of knowledge sharing across domains are two practical and yet less studied problems of dialogue state tracking. Existing approaches generally fall short in tracking unknown slot values during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Pascale Fung

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 a component of the task-oriented dialogue system. It is responsible for extracting and managing slot values according to dialogue utterances, where each slot represents an essential part of the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhoujian Sun , Zhengxing Huang , Nai Ding

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to convert the dialogue history into dialogue states which consist of slot-value pairs. As condensed structural information memorizing all history information, the dialogue state in the last turn is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haoning Zhang , Junwei Bao , Haipeng Sun , Youzheng Wu , Wenye Li , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong He

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

Dialogue state tracking is an important component in task-oriented dialogue systems to identify users' goals and requests as a dialogue proceeds. However, as most previous models are dependent on dialogue slots, the model complexity soars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

In task-oriented multi-turn dialogue systems, dialogue state refers to a compact representation of the user goal in the context of dialogue history. Dialogue state tracking (DST) is to estimate the dialogue state at each turn. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Yanbin Zhao , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays a key role in task-oriented dialogue systems to monitor the user's goal. In general, there are two strategies to track a dialogue state: predicting it from scratch and updating it from previous state. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Puhai Yang , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the nature of spoken conversations as well as the potential speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Di Jin , Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

This paper introduces a novel approach to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language descriptions of dialogue states, moving beyond traditional slot-value representations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rafael Carranza , Mateo Alejandro Rojas

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

Knowledge (including structured knowledge such as schema and ontology, and unstructured knowledge such as web corpus) is a critical part of dialog understanding, especially for unseen tasks and domains. Traditionally, such domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dian Yu , Mingqiu Wang , Yuan Cao , Izhak Shafran , Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau