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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST), reducing the need for task-specific training. However, conventional DST benchmarks primarily focus on structured user-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sangmin Song , Juhwan Choi , JungMin Yun , YoungBin Kim

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

This paper is concerned with dialogue state tracking (DST) in a task-oriented dialogue system. Building a DST module that is highly effective is still a challenging issue, although significant progresses have been made recently. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yue Feng , Yang Wang , Hang Li

In Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, correctly updating the system's understanding of the user's requests (\textit{a.k.a} dialogue state tracking) is key to a smooth interaction. Traditionally, TOD systems perform this update in three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Lucas Druart , Valentin Vielzeuf , Yannick Estève

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is an essential element of conversational AI with the objective of deeply understanding the conversation context and leading it toward answering user requests. Due to high demands for open-domain and multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher , Saeedeh Momtazi

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

Most recently proposed approaches in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage the context and the last dialogue states to track current dialogue states, which are often slot-value pairs. Although the context contains the complete dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jingyao Zhou , Haipang Wu , Zehao Lin , Guodun Li , Yin Zhang

A Dialogue State Tracker (DST) is a key component in a dialogue system aiming at estimating the beliefs of possible user goals at each dialogue turn. Most of the current DST trackers make use of recurrent neural networks and are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

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

Annotating task-oriented dialogues is notorious for the expensive and difficult data collection process. Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) is a realistic solution to this problem. In this paper, we hypothesize that dialogue summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jamin Shin , Hangyeol Yu , Hyeongdon Moon , Andrea Madotto , Juneyoung Park

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

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Trung H. Bui , Hung H. Bui

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) forms a core component of automated chatbot based systems designed for specific goals like hotel, taxi reservation, tourist information, etc. With the increasing need to deploy such systems in new domains,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Saket Dingliwal , Bill Gao , Sanchit Agarwal , Chien-Wei Lin , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

In dialogue state tracking (DST), in-context learning comprises a retriever that selects labeled dialogues as in-context examples and a DST model that uses these examples to infer the dialogue state of the query dialogue. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Haesung Pyun , Yoonah Park , Yohan Jo

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an essential role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, user's input may contain implicit information, posing significant challenges for DST tasks. Additionally, DST data includes complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zihao Yi , Zhe Xu , Ying Shen

Dialog State Tracking (DST), an integral part of modern dialog systems, aims to track user preferences and constraints (slots) in task-oriented dialogs. In real-world settings with constantly changing services, DST systems must generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Shuyang Li , Jin Cao , Mukund Sridhar , Henghui Zhu , Shang-Wen Li , Wael Hamza , Julian McAuley

The primary purpose of dialogue state tracking (DST), a critical component of an end-to-end conversational system, is to build a model that responds well to real-world situations. Although we often change our minds from time to time during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Takyoung Kim , Yukyung Lee , Hoonsang Yoon , Pilsung Kang , Junseong Bang , Misuk Kim

Existing dialogue state tracking (DST) models require plenty of labeled data. However, collecting high-quality labels is costly, especially when the number of domains increases. In this paper, we address a practical DST problem that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Caiming Xiong

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are designed to carry out specific tasks by tracking dialogue states and generating appropriate responses to help users achieve defined goals. Recently, end-to-end dialogue models pre-trained based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Namo Bang , Jeehyun Lee , Myoung-Wan Koo