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This paper proposes a novel end-to-end architecture for task-oriented dialogue systems. It is based on a simple and practical yet very effective sequence-to-sequence approach, where language understanding and state tracking tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Lei Shu , Piero Molino , Mahdi Namazifar , Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Huaixiu Zheng , Gokhan Tur

In Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, correctly updating the system's understanding of the user's needs is key to a smooth interaction. Traditionally TOD systems are composed of several modules that interact with one another. While each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Lucas Druart , Léo Jacqmin , Benoît Favre , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Valentin Vielzeuf

Existing conversational models are handled by a database(DB) and API based systems. However, very often users' questions require information that cannot be handled by such systems. Nonetheless, answers to these questions are available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Raja Kumar

Text-to-SQL converts natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to access relational databases for analytics and intelligent data services. In real-world scenarios, performance is often constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Tianhao Qiu , Xiaojun Chen

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in end-to-end task-oriented dialog system. However, most neural models rely on large training data, which are only available for a certain number of task domains, such as navigation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Libo Qin , Xiao Xu , Wanxiang Che , Yue Zhang , Ting Liu

Training task-oriented dialogue systems typically requires turn-level annotations for interacting with their APIs: e.g. a dialogue state and the system actions taken at each step. These annotations can be costly to produce, error-prone, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Brendan King , Jeffrey Flanigan

In recent research on dialogue systems and corpora, there has been a significant focus on two distinct categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems aim to satisfy specific user goals, such as finding a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

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 aim at providing users with task-specific services. Users of such systems often do not know all the information about the task they are trying to accomplish, requiring them to seek information about the task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yue Feng , Hossein A. Rahmani , Aldo Lipani , Emine Yilmaz

Task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems often need to formulate knowledge base (KB) queries corresponding to the user intent and use the query results to generate system responses. Existing approaches require dialog datasets to explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Dinesh Raghu , Nikhil Gupta , Mausam

The knowledge-grounded dialogue task aims to generate responses that convey information from given knowledge documents. However, it is a challenge for the current sequence-based model to acquire knowledge from complex documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yizhe Yang , Heyan Huang , Yang Gao , Jiawei Li and

The Knowledge Base (KB) used for real-world applications, such as booking a movie or restaurant reservation, keeps changing over time. End-to-end neural networks trained for these task-oriented dialogs are expected to be immune to any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Dinesh Raghu , Nikhil Gupta , Mausam

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

In text-to-SQL task, seq-to-seq models often lead to sub-optimal performance due to limitations in their architecture. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach that adapts transformer-based seq-to-seq model to robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Kuan Xu , Yongbo Wang , Yongliang Wang , Zujie Wen , Yang Dong

In this paper, we present a neural network based task-oriented dialogue system that can be optimized end-to-end with deep reinforcement learning (RL). The system is able to track dialogue state, interface with knowledge bases, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Bing Liu , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Pararth Shah , Larry Heck

End-to-end (E2E) task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are prone to fall into the so-called "likelihood trap", resulting in generated responses which are dull, repetitive, and often inconsistent with dialogue history. Comparing ranked lists…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Songbo Hu , Ivan Vulić , Fangyu Liu , Anna Korhonen

A challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems, Co-located with EMNLP2022 SereTOD Workshop.

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zhijian Ou , Junlan Feng , Juanzi Li , Yakun Li , Hong Liu , Hao Peng , Yi Huang , Jiangjiang Zhao

Dialogue systems attempt to facilitate conversations between humans and computers, for purposes as diverse as small talk to booking a vacation. We are here inspired by the performance of the recurrent neural network-based model Sequicity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ondřej Měkota , Memduh Gökırmak , Petr Laitoch

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

Attention-based encoder-decoder neural network models have recently shown promising results in goal-oriented dialogue systems. However, these models struggle to reason over and incorporate state-full knowledge while preserving their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Firas Kassawat , Debanjan Chaudhuri , Jens Lehmann