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In a human-machine dialog scenario, deciding the appropriate time for the machine to take the turn is an open research problem. In contrast, humans engaged in conversations are able to timely decide when to interrupt the speaker for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Andrei C. Coman , Koichiro Yoshino , Yukitoshi Murase , Satoshi Nakamura , Giuseppe Riccardi

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

As an essential component in task-oriented dialogue systems, dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to track human-machine interactions and generate state representations for managing the dialogue. Representations of dialogue states are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ruolin Su , Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang

Tracking the state of the conversation is a central component in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. One such approach for tracking the dialogue state is slot carryover, where a model makes a binary decision if a slot from the context is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Tongfei Chen , Chetan Naik , Hua He , Pushpendre Rastogi , Lambert Mathias

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a process to estimate the distribution of the dialogue states as a dialogue progresses. Recent studies on constrained Markov Bayesian polynomial (CMBP) framework take the first step towards bridging the gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Kai Sun , Qizhe Xie , Kai Yu

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

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

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system for conversational information access. A common practice in current dialog systems is to define the dialog state by a set of slot-value pairs. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yinpei Dai , Zhijian Ou , Dawei Ren , Pengfei Yu

Multi-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) is a critical component for conversational AI systems. The domain ontology (i.e., specification of domains, slots, and values) of a conversational AI system is generally incomplete, making the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Li Zhou , Kevin Small

The medical dialogue system is a promising application that can provide great convenience for patients. The dialogue state tracking (DST) module in the medical dialogue system which interprets utterances into the machine-readable structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jun Liu , Tong Ruan , Haofen Wang , Huanhuan Zhang

Recently several deep learning based models have been proposed for end-to-end learning of dialogs. While these models can be trained from data without the need for any additional annotations, it is hard to interpret them. On the other hand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Dhiraj Madan , Dinesh Raghu , Gaurav Pandey , Sachindra Joshi

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

Existing approaches to dialogue state tracking rely on pre-defined ontologies consisting of a set of all possible slot types and values. Though such approaches exhibit promising performance on single-domain benchmarks, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Liliang Ren , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Task-oriented conversational systems often use dialogue state tracking to represent the user's intentions, which involves filling in values of pre-defined slots. Many approaches have been proposed, often using task-specific architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Chia-Hsuan Lee , Hao Cheng , Mari Ostendorf

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

Existing approaches to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) rely on turn level dialogue state annotations, which are expensive to acquire in large scale. In call centers, for tasks like managing bookings or subscriptions, the user goal can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shuailong Liang , Lahari Poddar , Gyuri Szarvas

Tuning language models for dialogue generation has been a prevalent paradigm for building capable dialogue agents. Yet, traditional tuning narrowly views dialogue generation as resembling other language generation tasks, ignoring the role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jian Wang , Chak Tou Leong , Jiashuo Wang , Dongding Lin , Wenjie Li , Xiao-Yong Wei

Recently, research on open domain dialogue systems have attracted extensive interests of academic and industrial researchers. The goal of an open domain dialogue system is to imitate humans in conversations. Previous works on single turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei-Nan Zhang , Yiming Cui , Kaiyan Zhang , Yifa Wang , Qingfu Zhu , Lingzhi Li , Ting Liu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an essential sub-task for task-oriented dialogue systems. Recent work has focused on deep neural models for DST. However, the neural models require a large dataset for training. Furthermore, applying them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hyunmin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

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