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Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is of paramount importance in ensuring accurate tracking of user goals and system actions within task-oriented dialogue systems. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yujie Feng , Zexin Lu , Bo Liu , Liming Zhan , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

This paper proposes an improvement to the existing data-driven Neural Belief Tracking (NBT) framework for Dialogue State Tracking (DST). The existing NBT model uses a hand-crafted belief state update mechanism which involves an expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Nikola Mrkšić , Ivan Vulić

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

RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Patrick Huber , Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

Task-oriented dialog systems rely on dialog state tracking (DST) to monitor the user's goal during the course of an interaction. Multi-domain and open-vocabulary settings complicate the task considerably and demand scalable solutions. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and argumentative structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on inducing and evaluating models from the English RST Discourse Treebank. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Chloé Braud , Maximin Coavoux , Anders Søgaard

A key component of modern conversational systems is the Dialogue State Tracker (or DST), which models a user's goals and needs. Toward building more robust and reliable DSTs, we introduce a prompt-based learning approach to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xiangjue Dong , Yun He , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

The task of dialog management is commonly decomposed into two sequential subtasks: dialog state tracking and dialog policy learning. In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate the true dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Julien Perez

The performance of task-oriented dialogue models is strongly tied to how well they track dialogue states, which records and updates user information across multi-turn interactions. However, current multi-domain DST encounters two key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoxiang Su , Ruiyu Fang , Liting Jiang , Xiaomeng Huang , Shuangyong Song

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to extract essential information from multi-turn dialogue situations and take appropriate actions. A belief state, one of the core pieces of information, refers to the subject and its specific content, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Takyoung Kim , Hoonsang Yoon , Yukyung Lee , Pilsung Kang , Misuk Kim

Dialogue discourse parsing aims to uncover the internal structure of a multi-participant conversation by finding all the discourse~\emph{links} and corresponding~\emph{relations}. Previous work either treats this task as a series of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ta-Chung Chi , Alexander I. Rudnicky

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

An ideal dialogue system requires continuous skill acquisition and adaptation to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. Dialogue State Tracking (DST), vital in these systems, often involves learning new services and confronting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yujie Feng , Bo Liu , Xiaoyu Dong , Zexin Lu , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

RST-based discourse parsing is an important NLP task with numerous downstream applications, such as summarization, machine translation and opinion mining. In this paper, we demonstrate a simple, yet highly accurate discourse parser,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Grigorii Guz , Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini

This paper gives an overview of the Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking task of the 8th Dialogue System Technology Challenge. The goal of this task is to develop dialogue state tracking models suitable for large-scale virtual assistants,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Abhinav Rastogi , Xiaoxue Zang , Srinivas Sunkara , Raghav Gupta , Pranav Khaitan

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

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is crucial for understanding user needs and executing appropriate system actions in task-oriented dialogues. Majority of existing DST methods are designed to work within predefined ontologies and assume the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Abdulfattah Safa , Gözde Gül Şahin

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an update in the task domain, the dialogue system usually needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Tagyoung Chung , Jeremie Lecomte , Arindam Mandal , Dilek Hakkani-Tur