English
Related papers

Related papers: Point or Generate Dialogue State Tracker

200 papers

Task-oriented dialog(TOD) aims to assist users in achieving specific goals through multi-turn conversation. Recently, good results have been obtained based on large pre-trained models. However, the labeled-data scarcity hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zhitong Yang , Xing Ma , Anqi Liu , Zheyu Zhang

Task-oriented dialogue systems rely on predefined conversation schemes (dialogue flows) often represented as directed acyclic graphs. These flows can be manually designed or automatically generated from previously recorded conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Mehrnoosh Mirtaheri , Nikhil Varghese , Chandra Khatri , Amol Kelkar

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is an essential element of conversational AI with the objective of deeply understanding the conversation context and leading it toward answering user requests. Due to high demands for open-domain and multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher , Saeedeh Momtazi

In dialogue state tracking (DST), labeling the dataset involves considerable human labor. We propose a new self-training framework for few-shot generative DST that utilize unlabeled data. Our self-training method iteratively improves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jihyun Lee , Chaebin Lee , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

The ability to accurately track what happens during a conversation is essential for the performance of a dialogue system. Current state-of-the-art multi-domain dialogue state trackers achieve just over 55% accuracy on the current go-to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Nurul Lubis , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

User simulation is essential for generating enough data to train a statistical spoken dialogue system. Previous models for user simulation suffer from several drawbacks, such as the inability to take dialogue history into account, the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Layla El Asri , Jing He , Kaheer Suleman

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

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

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems assist users in completing tasks through natural language interactions, often relying on a single-layered workflow structure for slot-filling in public tasks, such as hotel bookings. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Lingbo Mo , Shun Jiang , Akash Maharaj , Bernard Hishamunda , Yunyao Li

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to a wide variety of NLP tasks, but how to properly use them for dialogue state tracking has not been systematically investigated. In this paper, we study this problem from the perspectives of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Jeffrey Zhao , Mahdis Mahdieh , Ye Zhang , Yuan Cao , Yonghui Wu

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Trung H. Bui , Hung H. Bui

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

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

Dialogue systems benefit greatly from optimizing on detailed annotations, such as transcribed utterances, internal dialogue state representations and dialogue act labels. However, collecting these annotations is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Marek Rei , Paweł Budzianowski , Richard E. Turner , Bill Byrne , Anna Korhonen

There is a growing interest in developing goal-oriented dialog systems which serve users in accomplishing complex tasks through multi-turn conversations. Although many methods are devised to evaluate and improve the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Jinchao Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Minlie Huang

Dialogue act annotations are important to improve response generation quality in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, it can be challenging to use dialogue acts to control response generation in a generalizable way because different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Qingyang Wu , James Gung , Raphael Shu , Yi Zhang

Detecting an Out-of-Domain (OOD) utterance is crucial for a robust dialog system. Most dialog systems are trained on a pool of annotated OOD data to achieve this goal. However, collecting the annotated OOD data for a given domain is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Petr Marek , Vishal Ishwar Naik , Vincent Auvray , Anuj Goyal

MultiWOZ is a well-known task-oriented dialogue dataset containing over 10,000 annotated dialogues spanning 8 domains. It is extensively used as a benchmark for dialogue state tracking. However, recent works have reported presence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaoxue Zang , Abhinav Rastogi , Srinivas Sunkara , Raghav Gupta , Jianguo Zhang , Jindong Chen

There has been a rapid development in data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems with the benefit of large-scale datasets. However, the progress of dialogue systems in low-resource languages lags far behind due to the lack of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) aims to keep track of users' intentions during the course of a conversation. In DST, modelling the relations among domains and slots is still an under-studied problem. Existing approaches that have considered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yue Feng , Aldo Lipani , Fanghua Ye , Qiang Zhang , Emine Yilmaz