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We describe a two-step approach for dialogue management in task-oriented spoken dialogue systems. A unified neural network framework is proposed to enable the system to first learn by supervision from a set of dialogue data and then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Pei-Hao Su , Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrksic , Lina Rojas-Barahona , Stefan Ultes , David Vandyke , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are designed to carry out specific tasks by tracking dialogue states and generating appropriate responses to help users achieve defined goals. Recently, end-to-end dialogue models pre-trained based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Namo Bang , Jeehyun Lee , Myoung-Wan Koo

The schema-guided paradigm overcomes scalability issues inherent in building task-oriented dialogue (TOD) agents with static ontologies. Instead of operating on dialogue context alone, agents have access to hierarchical schemas containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 A. Coca , B. H. Tseng , W. Lin , B. Byrne

Perceiving multi-modal information and fulfilling dialogues with humans is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. Pre-training is commonly regarded as an effective approach for multi-modal dialogue. However, due to the limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yunshui Li , Binyuan Hui , ZhiChao Yin , Min Yang , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Current research in dialogue systems is focused on conversational assistants working on short conversations in either task-oriented or open domain settings. In this paper, we focus on improving task-based conversational assistants online,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Ruijie Zhou , Soham Deshmukh , Jeremiah Greer , Charles Lee

Task-oriented dialogue is difficult in part because it involves understanding user intent, collecting information from the user, executing API calls, and generating helpful and fluent responses. However, for complex tasks one must also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefania Raimondo , Christopher Pal , Xiaotian Liu , David Vazquez , Hector Palacios

There is a multitude of novel generative models for open-domain conversational systems; however, there is no systematic evaluation of different systems. Systematic comparisons require consistency in experimental design, evaluation sets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Seolhwa Lee , Heuiseok Lim , João Sedoc

The long-standing one-to-many problem of gold standard responses in open-domain dialogue systems presents challenges for automatic evaluation metrics. Though prior works have demonstrated some success by applying powerful Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Kun Zhao , Bohao Yang , Chen Tang , Chenghua Lin , Liang Zhan

It is difficult to create robust, reusable, and reactive behaviors for robots that can be easily extended and combined. Frameworks such as Behavior Trees are flexible but difficult to characterize, especially when designing reactions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Chris Paxton , Nathan Ratliff , Clemens Eppner , Dieter Fox

Task-oriented dialogue systems are essential for applications ranging from customer service to personal assistants and are widely used across various industries. However, developing effective multi-domain systems remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aman Gupta , Anirudh Ravichandran , Ziji Zhang , Swair Shah , Anurag Beniwal , Narayanan Sadagopan

The swift advancement in the scales and capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) positions them as promising tools for a variety of downstream tasks. In addition to the pursuit of better performance and the avoidance of violent feedback…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Haoyu Wang , Guozheng Ma , Cong Yu , Ning Gui , Linrui Zhang , Zhiqi Huang , Suwei Ma , Yongzhe Chang , Sen Zhang , Li Shen , Xueqian Wang , Peilin Zhao , Dacheng Tao

Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coordinate interleaved goals, maintain long-horizon context, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yifei Zhang , Hooshang Nayyeri , Rinat Khaziev , Emine Yilmaz , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Hari Thadakamalla

Task-oriented dialogue systems have been a promising area in the NLP field. Previous work showed the effectiveness of using a single GPT-2 based model to predict belief states and responses via causal language modeling. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Po-Nien Kung , Chung-Cheng Chang , Tse-Hsuan Yang , Hsin-Kai Hsu , Yu-Jia Liou , Yun-Nung Chen

One of the major drawbacks of modularized task-completion dialogue systems is that each module is trained individually, which presents several challenges. For example, downstream modules are affected by earlier modules, and the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Xiujun Li , Yun-Nung Chen , Lihong Li , Jianfeng Gao , Asli Celikyilmaz

Driven by inherent uncertainty and the sim-to-real gap, robust reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to improve resilience against the complexity and variability in agent-environment sequential interactions. Despite the existence of a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shangding Gu , Laixi Shi , Muning Wen , Ming Jin , Eric Mazumdar , Yuejie Chi , Adam Wierman , Costas Spanos

Task-oriented dialogue systems in industry settings need to have high conversational capability, be easily adaptable to changing situations and conform to business constraints. This paper describes a 3-step procedure to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lahari Poddar , György Szarvas , Cheng Wang , Jorge Balazs , Pavel Danchenko , Patrick Ernst

In recent years, large pretrained models have been used in dialogue systems to improve successful task completion rates. However, lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue platforms make it difficult to provide relevant and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Alessandra Cervone , Prakash Krishnan , Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to significant progress in robotics, enabling embodied agents to better understand and execute open-ended tasks. However, existing approaches using LLMs face limitations in grounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Émiland Garrabé , Pierre Teixeira , Mahdi Khoramshahi , Stéphane Doncieux

In task-oriented dialogs (TOD), reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms train a model to directly optimize response for task-related metrics. However, RL needs to perform exploration, which can be time-consuming due to the slow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xiao Yu , Qingyang Wu , Kun Qian , Zhou Yu

Current medical AI systems often fail to replicate real-world clinical reasoning, as they are predominantly trained and evaluated on static text and question-answer tasks. These tuning methods and benchmarks overlook critical aspects like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zijie Liu , Xinyu Zhao , Jie Peng , Zhuangdi Zhu , Qingyu Chen , Kaidi Xu , Xia Hu , Tianlong Chen