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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

Most recently proposed approaches in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage the context and the last dialogue states to track current dialogue states, which are often slot-value pairs. Although the context contains the complete dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jingyao Zhou , Haipang Wu , Zehao Lin , Guodun Li , Yin Zhang

In task-oriented dialogue systems, recent dialogue state tracking methods tend to perform one-pass generation of the dialogue state based on the previous dialogue state. The mistakes of these models made at the current turn are prone to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xin Tian , Liankai Huang , Yingzhan Lin , Siqi Bao , Huang He , Yunyi Yang , Hua Wu , Fan Wang , Shuqi Sun

A Dialogue State Tracker (DST) is a key component in a dialogue system aiming at estimating the beliefs of possible user goals at each dialogue turn. Most of the current DST trackers make use of recurrent neural networks and are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

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

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

In dialogue state tracking, dialogue history is a crucial material, and its utilization varies between different models. However, no matter how the dialogue history is used, each existing model uses its own consistent dialogue history…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jinyu Guo , Kai Shuang , Jijie Li , Zihan Wang , Yixuan Liu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to record user queries and goals during a conversational interaction achieved by maintaining a predefined set of slots and their corresponding values. Current approaches decide slot values opaquely, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lin Xu , Ningxin Peng , Daquan Zhou , See-Kiong Ng , Jinlan Fu

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

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

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

Programmable task-oriented dialogue (TOD) agents enable language models to follow structured dialogue policies, but their effectiveness hinges on accurate state tracking. We present PyTOD, an agent that generates executable code to track…

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 efforts in Dialogue State Tracking (DST) for task-oriented dialogues have progressed toward open-vocabulary or generation-based approaches where the models can generate slot value candidates from the dialogue history itself. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Hung Le , Richard Socher , Steven C. H. Hoi

Dialog State Tracking (DST) is one of the most crucial modules for goal-oriented dialogue systems. In this paper, we introduce FastSGT (Fast Schema Guided Tracker), a fast and robust BERT-based model for state tracking in goal-oriented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Vahid Noroozi , Yang Zhang , Evelina Bakhturina , Tomasz Kornuta

Task-oriented dialogue systems aim to help users achieve their goals in specific domains. Recent neural dialogue systems use the entire dialogue history for abundant contextual information accumulated over multiple conversational turns.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Hyunmin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

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

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

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