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Dialogue state tracking is an important component in task-oriented dialogue systems to identify users' goals and requests as a dialogue proceeds. However, as most previous models are dependent on dialogue slots, the model complexity soars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

A dialog state tracker is an important component in modern spoken dialog systems. We present an incremental dialog state tracker, based on LSTM networks. It directly uses automatic speech recognition hypotheses to track the state. We also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Lukas Zilka , Filip Jurcicek

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an essential sub-task for task-oriented dialogue systems. Recent work has focused on deep neural models for DST. However, the neural models require a large dataset for training. Furthermore, applying them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hyunmin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

There has been a rapid development in data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems with the benefit of large-scale datasets. However, the progress of dialogue systems in low-resource languages lags far behind due to the lack of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

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

This paper presents a hybrid dialog state tracker that combines a rule based and a machine learning based approach to belief state tracking. Therefore, we call it a hybrid tracker. The machine learning in our tracker is realized by a Long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Miroslav Vodolán , Rudolf Kadlec , Jan Kleindienst

GuessWhat?! is a visual dialogue task between a guesser and an oracle. The guesser aims to locate an object supposed by the oracle oneself in an image by asking a sequence of Yes/No questions. Asking proper questions with the progress of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Wei Pang , Xiaojie Wang

In a human-machine dialog scenario, deciding the appropriate time for the machine to take the turn is an open research problem. In contrast, humans engaged in conversations are able to timely decide when to interrupt the speaker for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Andrei C. Coman , Koichiro Yoshino , Yukitoshi Murase , Satoshi Nakamura , Giuseppe Riccardi

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

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

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is of paramount importance in ensuring accurate tracking of user goals and system actions within task-oriented dialogue systems. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yujie Feng , Zexin Lu , Bo Liu , Liming Zhan , Xiao-Ming Wu

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are required to identify key information from conversations for the completion of given tasks. Such information is conventionally specified in terms of intents and slots contained in task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jeffrey Zhao , Raghav Gupta , Yuan Cao , Dian Yu , Mingqiu Wang , Harrison Lee , Abhinav Rastogi , Izhak Shafran , Yonghui Wu

Dialogue state tracking, which estimates user goals and requests given the dialogue context, is an essential part of task-oriented dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose the Global-Locally Self-Attentive Dialogue State Tracker (GLAD),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Victor Zhong , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to convert the dialogue history into dialogue states which consist of slot-value pairs. As condensed structural information memorizing all history information, the dialogue state in the last turn is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haoning Zhang , Junwei Bao , Haipeng Sun , Youzheng Wu , Wenye Li , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong He

Dialogue models falter in noisy, multi-speaker environments, often producing irrelevant responses and awkward turn-taking. We present AV-Dialog, the first multimodal dialog framework that uses both audio and visual cues to track the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tuochao Chen , Bandhav Veluri , Hongyu Gong , Shyamnath Gollakota

This paper introduces a novel approach to Dialogue State Tracking (DST) that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language descriptions of dialogue states, moving beyond traditional slot-value representations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rafael Carranza , Mateo Alejandro Rojas

Dialog state tracking is a key component of many modern dialog systems, most of which are designed with a single, well-defined domain in mind. This paper shows that dialog data drawn from different dialog domains can be used to train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Nikola Mrkšić , Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha , Blaise Thomson , Milica Gašić , Pei-Hao Su , David Vandyke , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances tracking by mitigating the limitations of relying solely on the visual modality, utilizing high-level semantic information through language. This integration of the language enables more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Existing approaches to dialogue state tracking rely on pre-defined ontologies consisting of a set of all possible slot types and values. Though such approaches exhibit promising performance on single-domain benchmarks, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Liliang Ren , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

The traditional Dialogue State Tracking (DST) problem aims to track user preferences and intents in user-agent conversations. While sufficient for task-oriented dialogue systems supporting narrow domain applications, the advent of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Chirag Shah , Mengting Wan , Jennifer Neville , Longqi Yang , Reid Andersen , Georg Buscher , Tara Safavi