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Dialogue State Tracking is central to multi-domain task-oriented dialogue systems, responsible for extracting information from user utterances. We present a novel hybrid architecture that augments GPT-2 with representations derived from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Weizhe Lin , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Bill Byrne

Dialogue state tracking plays a crucial role in extracting information in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, preceding research are limited to textual modalities, primarily due to the shortage of authentic human audio datasets. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jihyun Lee , Yejin Jeon , Wonjun Lee , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

An important yet rarely tackled problem in dialogue state tracking (DST) is scalability for dynamic ontology (e.g., movie, restaurant) and unseen slot values. We focus on a specific condition, where the ontology is unknown to the state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Guan-Lin Chao , Ian Lane

In-context learning with Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising avenue of research in Dialog State Tracking (DST). However, the best-performing in-context learning methods involve retrieving and adding similar examples to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Atharva Kulkarni , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , Dhivya Piraviperumal , Hong Yu , Shruti Bhargava

End-to-end spoken dialogue state tracking (DST) is made difficult by the tandem of having to handle speech input and data scarcity. Combining speech foundation encoders and large language models has been proposed in recent work as to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Katia Vendrame , Bolaji Yusuf , Santosh Kesiraju , Šimon Sedláček , Oldřich Plchot , Jan Černocký

The challenge of defining a slot schema to represent the state of a task-oriented dialogue system is addressed by Slot Schema Induction (SSI), which aims to automatically induce slots from unlabeled dialogue data. Whereas previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 James D. Finch , Boxin Zhao , Jinho D. Choi

Recent works in dialogue state tracking (DST) focus on an open vocabulary-based setting to resolve scalability and generalization issues of the predefined ontology-based approaches. However, they are inefficient in that they predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sungdong Kim , Sohee Yang , Gyuwan Kim , Sang-Woo Lee

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a crucial component of task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems, keeps track of all important information pertaining to dialogue history: filling slots with the most probable values throughout the conversation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Han Zhou , Ignacio Iacobacci , Pasquale Minervini

Zero-shot cross-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) enables us to handle task-oriented dialogue in unseen domains without the expense of collecting in-domain data. In this paper, we propose a slot description enhanced generative approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhaojiang Lin , Bing Liu , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Zhenpeng Zhou , Zhiguang Wang , Zhou Yu , Andrea Madotto , Eunjoon Cho , Rajen Subba

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

Dialog State Tracking (DST) is one of the most crucial modules for goal-oriented dialogue systems. In this paper, we introduce FastSGT (Fast Schema Guided Tracker), a fast and robust BERT-based model for state tracking in goal-oriented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Vahid Noroozi , Yang Zhang , Evelina Bakhturina , Tomasz Kornuta

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is a core component of virtual assistants such as Alexa or Siri. To accomplish various tasks, these assistants need to support an increasing number of services and APIs. The Schema-Guided State Tracking track…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Pavel Gulyaev , Eugenia Elistratova , Vasily Konovalov , Yuri Kuratov , Leonid Pugachev , Mikhail Burtsev

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) models often employ intricate neural network architectures, necessitating substantial training data, and their inference process lacks transparency. This paper proposes a method that extracts linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xiaohan Feng , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

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

The task of dialogue generation aims to automatically provide responses given previous utterances. Tracking dialogue states is an important ingredient in dialogue generation for estimating users' intention. However, the \emph{expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Xisen Jin , Wenqiang Lei , Zhaochun Ren , Hongshen Chen , Shangsong Liang , Yihong Zhao , Dawei Yin

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

Motivation: Disease diagnosis oriented dialogue system models the interactive consultation procedure as Markov Decision Process and reinforcement learning algorithms are used to solve the problem. Existing approaches usually employ a flat…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Cheng Zhong , Kangenbei Liao , Wei Chen , Qianlong Liu , Baolin Peng , Xuanjing Huang , Jiajie Peng , Zhongyu Wei

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

Medical dialogue systems (MDS) have emerged as crucial online platforms for enabling multi-turn, context-aware conversations with patients. However, existing MDS often struggle to (1) identify relevant medical knowledge and (2) generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongda Sun , Jiaren Peng , Wenzhong Yang , Liang He , Bo Du , Rui Yan

Much literature has shown that prompt-based learning is an efficient method to make use of the large pre-trained language model. Recent works also exhibit the possibility of steering a chatbot's output by plugging in an appropriate prompt.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hsuan Su , Pohan Chi , Shih-Cheng Huang , Chung Ho Lam , Saurav Sahay , Shang-Tse Chen , Hung-yi Lee