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Popular dialog datasets such as MultiWOZ are created by providing crowd workers an instruction, expressed in natural language, that describes the task to be accomplished. Crowd workers play the role of a user and an agent to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Biswesh Mohapatra , Gaurav Pandey , Danish Contractor , Sachindra Joshi

This work combines information about the dialogue history encoded by pre-trained model with a meaning representation of the current system utterance to realize contextual language generation in task-oriented dialogues. We utilize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ye Liu , Wolfgang Maier , Wolfgang Minker , Stefan Ultes

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

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations. Building such dialogue systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hung Le , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Seungwhan Moon , Ahmad Beirami , Alborz Geramifard , Satwik Kottur

Existing goal-oriented dialogue datasets focus mainly on identifying slots and values. However, customer support interactions in reality often involve agents following multi-step procedures derived from explicitly-defined company policies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Derek Chen , Howard Chen , Yi Yang , Alex Lin , Zhou Yu

We describe an approach to task-oriented dialogue in which dialogue state is represented as a dataflow graph. A dialogue agent maps each user utterance to a program that extends this graph. Programs include metacomputation operators for…

Creating effective and reliable task-oriented dialog systems (ToDSs) is challenging, not only because of the complex structure of these systems, but also due to the scarcity of training data, especially when several modules need to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christos Vlachos , Themos Stafylakis , Ion Androutsopoulos

Toxic speech on online platforms is a growing concern, impacting user experience and online safety. While text-based toxicity detection is well-studied, audio-based approaches remain underexplored, especially for low-resource languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huy Ba Do , Vy Le-Phuong Huynh , Luan Thanh Nguyen

The MultiWOZ dataset (Budzianowski et al.,2018) is frequently used for benchmarking context-to-response abilities of task-oriented dialogue systems. In this work, we identify inconsistencies in data preprocessing and reporting of three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tomáš Nekvinda , Ondřej Dušek

Recent advances in contextualized word embeddings have greatly improved semantic tasks such as Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and contextual similarity, but most progress has been limited to high-resource languages like English.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Khang T. Huynh , Dung H. Nguyen , Binh T. Nguyen

Task-oriented dialogue systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained increasing attention across various industries and achieved significant results. Current approaches condense complex procedural workflows into a single agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zihao Feng , Xiaoxue Wang , Bowen Wu , Weihong Zhong , Zhen Xu , Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao , Ying Li , Baoxun Wang

Previous attempts to build effective semantic parsers for Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) conversations suffer from the difficulty in acquiring a high-quality, manually annotated training set. Approaches based only on dialogue synthesis are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Giovanni Campagna , Sina J. Semnani , Ryan Kearns , Lucas Jun Koba Sato , Silei Xu , Monica S. Lam

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are designed to help users achieve specific goals through natural language interaction. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved linguistic fluency and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shutong Feng , Hsien-chin Lin , Nurul Lubis , Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Benjamin Ruppik , Renato Vukovic , Milica Gašić

Medical task-oriented dialogue systems can assist doctors by collecting patient medical history, aiding in diagnosis, or guiding treatment selection, thereby reducing doctor burnout and expanding access to medical services. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Vishal Vivek Saley , Goonjan Saha , Rocktim Jyoti Das , Dinesh Raghu , Mausam

Pre-trained conversation models (PCMs) have achieved promising progress in recent years. However, existing PCMs for Task-oriented dialog (TOD) are insufficient for capturing the sequential nature of the TOD-related tasks, as well as for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lucen Zhong , Hengtong Lu , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang , Jiashen Sun , Ke Zeng , Guanglu Wan

Dialogue assessment plays a critical role in the development of open-domain dialogue systems. Existing work are uncapable of providing an end-to-end and human-epistemic assessment dataset, while they only provide sub-metrics like coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yukun Zhao , Lingyong Yan , Weiwei Sun , Chong Meng , Shuaiqiang Wang , Zhicong Cheng , Zhaochun Ren , Dawei Yin

In this paper, we propose to formulate the task-oriented dialogue system as the purely natural language generation task, so as to fully leverage the large-scale pre-trained models like GPT-2 and simplify complicated delexicalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weizhi Wang , Zhirui Zhang , Junliang Guo , Yinpei Dai , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Target-oriented dialogue systems, designed to proactively steer conversations toward predefined targets or accomplish specific system-side goals, are an exciting area in conversational AI. In this work, by formulating a <dialogue act,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jian Wang , Yi Cheng , Dongding Lin , Chak Tou Leong , Wenjie Li

Although pre-trained language models have remarkably enhanced the generation ability of dialogue systems, open-domain Chinese dialogue systems are still limited by the dialogue data and the model size compared with English ones. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hao Zhou , Pei Ke , Zheng Zhang , Yuxian Gu , Yinhe Zheng , Chujie Zheng , Yida Wang , Chen Henry Wu , Hao Sun , Xiaocong Yang , Bosi Wen , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang , Jie Tang

Large language models (LLMs) have been used for diverse tasks in natural language processing (NLP), yet remain under-explored for task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), especially for end-to-end TODS. We present InstructTODS, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Willy Chung , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Bryan Wilie , Holy Lovenia , Pascale Fung