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The dependencies between system and user utterances in the same turn and across different turns are not fully considered in existing multidomain dialogue state tracking (MDST) models. In this study, we argue that the incorporation of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

In this work, we approach spoken Dialogue State Tracking (DST) by bridging the representation spaces of speech encoders and LLMs via a small connector module, with a focus on fully open-sourced and open-data components (WavLM-large, OLMo).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Šimon Sedláček , Bolaji Yusuf , Ján Švec , Pradyoth Hegde , Santosh Kesiraju , Oldřich Plchot , Jan Černocký

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an important part of a spoken dialogue system. Existing DST models either ignore temporal feature dependencies across dialogue turns or fail to explicitly model temporal state dependencies in a dialogue. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

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

Goal-oriented chatbots are essential for automating user tasks, such as booking flights or making restaurant reservations. A key component of these systems is Dialogue State Tracking (DST), which interprets user intent and maintains the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sejin Lee , Dongha Kim , Min Song

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

We present a novel approach to dialogue state tracking and referring expression resolution tasks. Successful contextual understanding of multi-turn spoken dialogues requires resolving referring expressions across turns and tracking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pushpendre Rastogi , Arpit Gupta , Tongfei Chen , Lambert Mathias

Dialog state tracking is used to estimate the current belief state of a dialog given all the preceding conversation. Machine reading comprehension, on the other hand, focuses on building systems that read passages of text and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

Sequence-to-sequence state-of-the-art systems for dialogue state tracking (DST) use the full dialogue history as input, represent the current state as a list with all the slots, and generate the entire state from scratch at each dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pietro Lesci , Yoshinari Fujinuma , Momchil Hardalov , Chao Shang , Yassine Benajiba , Lluis Marquez

While multi-party conversations are often less structured than monologues and documents, they are implicitly organized by semantic level correlations across the interactive turns, and dialogue discourse analysis can be applied to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

Existing neural models for dialogue response generation assume that utterances are sequentially organized. However, many real-world dialogues involve multiple interlocutors (i.e., multi-party dialogues), where the assumption does not hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Wenpeng Hu , Zhangming Chan , Bing Liu , Dongyan Zhao , Jinwen Ma , Rui Yan

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding, or SLU, refers to the task of parsing natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Making use of context from prior dialogue history holds the key to more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Raghav Gupta , Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

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

Extracting structure information from dialogue data can help us better understand user and system behaviors. In task-oriented dialogues, dialogue structure has often been considered as transition graphs among dialogue states. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Liang Qiu , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Open-domain multi-turn conversations normally face the challenges of how to enrich and expand the content of the conversation. Recently, many approaches based on external knowledge are proposed to generate rich semantic and information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Feifei Xu , Shanlin Zhou , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Wenkai Zhang , Zhisong Li

Stochastic sampling strategies such as top-k and top-p have been widely used in dialogue generation task. However, as an open-domain chatting system, there will be two different conversation scenarios, i.e. chit-chat and knowledge-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yiwei Li , Fei Mi , Yitong Li , Yasheng Wang , Bin Sun , Shaoxiong Feng , Kan Li

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), which is the process of inferring user goals by estimating belief states given the dialogue history, plays a critical role in task-oriented dialogue systems. A coreference phenomenon observed in multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ting Han , Chongxuan Huang , Wei Peng

Annotating task-oriented dialogues is notorious for the expensive and difficult data collection process. Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) is a realistic solution to this problem. In this paper, we hypothesize that dialogue summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jamin Shin , Hangyeol Yu , Hyeongdon Moon , Andrea Madotto , Juneyoung Park