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Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking (DST) addresses the challenge of acquiring and annotating task-oriented dialogues, which can be time-consuming and costly. However, DST extends beyond simple slot-filling and requires effective updating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yuxiang Wu , Guanting Dong , Weiran 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

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

With the demanding need for deploying dialogue systems in new domains with less cost, zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST), which tracks user's requirements in task-oriented dialogues without training on desired domains, draws attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ruolin Su , Jingfeng Yang , Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. DST estimates the user's goal at each user turn given the interaction until then. State of the art approaches for state tracking rely on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) is a realistic problem that trains the DST model with limited labeled data. Existing few-shot methods mainly transfer knowledge learned from external labeled dialogue data (e.g., from question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Haoning Zhang , Junwei Bao , Haipeng Sun , Huaishao Luo , Wenye Li , Shuguang Cui

Task-oriented dialogue systems often employ a Dialogue State Tracker (DST) to successfully complete conversations. Recent state-of-the-art DST implementations rely on schemata of diverse services to improve model robustness and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Eleftherios Kapelonis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a core component in task-oriented dialog systems. Existing approaches for DST mainly fall into one of two categories, namely, ontology-based and ontology-free methods. An ontology-based method selects a value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Jian-Guo Zhang , Kazuma Hashimoto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Existing dialogue datasets contain lots of noise in their state annotations. Such noise can hurt model training and ultimately lead to poor generalization performance. A general framework named ASSIST has recently been proposed to train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fanghua Ye , Xi Wang , Jie Huang , Shenghui Li , Samuel Stern , Emine Yilmaz

This paper presents an ontology-aware pretrained language model (OPAL) for end-to-end task-oriented dialogue (TOD). Unlike chit-chat dialogue models, task-oriented dialogue models fulfill at least two task-specific modules: dialogue state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhi Chen , Yuncong Liu , Lu Chen , Su Zhu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

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

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

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, collecting a large amount of turn-by-turn annotated dialogue data is costly and inefficient. In this paper, we propose a novel turn-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Fanghua Ye , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

Dialog state tracking (DST) suffers from severe data sparsity. While many natural language processing (NLP) tasks benefit from transfer learning and multi-task learning, in dialog these methods are limited by the amount of available data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Michael Heck , Carel van Niekerk , Nurul Lubis , Christian Geishauser , Hsien-Chin Lin , Marco Moresi , Milica Gašić

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), a key component of task-oriented conversation systems, represents user intentions by determining the values of pre-defined slots in an ongoing dialogue. Existing approaches use hand-crafted templates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Praveen Venkateswaran , Evelyn Duesterwald , Vatche Isahagian

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

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

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

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