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Many efforts have been made to construct dialog systems for different types of conversations, such as task-oriented dialog (TOD) and open-domain dialog (ODD). To better mimic human-level conversations that usually fuse various dialog modes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Miaoran Li , Baolin Peng , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Zhu Zhang

Previous dialogue summarization datasets mainly focus on open-domain chitchat dialogues, while summarization datasets for the broadly used task-oriented dialogue haven't been explored yet. Automatically summarizing such task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Lulu Zhao , Fujia Zheng , Keqing He , Weihao Zeng , Yuejie Lei , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu , Jun Guo , Fanyu Meng

Open-ended human learning and information-seeking are increasingly mediated by digital assistants. However, such systems often ignore the user's pre-existing knowledge. Assuming a correlation between engagement and user responses such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pedro Rodriguez , Paul Crook , Seungwhan Moon , Zhiguang Wang

In order to alleviate the shortage of multi-domain data and to capture discourse phenomena for task-oriented dialogue modeling, we propose RiSAWOZ, a large-scale multi-domain Chinese Wizard-of-Oz dataset with Rich Semantic Annotations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jun Quan , Shian Zhang , Qian Cao , Zizhong Li , Deyi Xiong

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems assist users in completing tasks through natural language interactions, often relying on a single-layered workflow structure for slot-filling in public tasks, such as hotel bookings. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Lingbo Mo , Shun Jiang , Akash Maharaj , Bernard Hishamunda , Yunyao Li

This study examined users' behavioral differences in a large corpus of Japanese human-robot interactions, comparing interactions between a tele-operated robot and an autonomous dialogue system. We analyzed user spoken behaviors in both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mikey Elmers , Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara

Much recent progress in task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems has been driven by available annotation data across multiple domains for training. Over the last few years, there has been a move towards data curation for multilingual ToD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Bosheng Ding , Junjie Hu , Lidong Bing , Sharifah Mahani Aljunied , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

While most task-oriented dialogues assume conversations between the agent and one user at a time, dialogue systems are increasingly expected to communicate with multiple users simultaneously who make decisions collaboratively. To facilitate…

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

Task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS) have become crucial for users to interact with machines and computers using natural language. One of its key components is the dialogue manager, which guides the conversation towards a good goal for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Miguel Ángel Medina-Ramírez , Cayetano Guerra-Artal , Mario Hernández-Tejera

Research on (multi-domain) task-oriented dialog (TOD) has predominantly focused on the English language, primarily due to the shortage of robust TOD datasets in other languages, preventing the systematic investigation of cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Chia-Chien Hung , Anne Lauscher , Ivan Vulić , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

In light of recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the expectations for the next generation of virtual assistants include enhanced naturalness and adaptability across diverse usage scenarios. However, the creation of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yinhong Liu , Yimai Fang , David Vandyke , Nigel Collier

To advance multi-domain (cross-domain) dialogue modeling as well as alleviate the shortage of Chinese task-oriented datasets, we propose CrossWOZ, the first large-scale Chinese Cross-Domain Wizard-of-Oz task-oriented dataset. It contains 6K…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Qi Zhu , Kaili Huang , Zheng Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Most existing dialogue corpora and models have been designed to fit into 2 predominant categories : task-oriented dialogues portray functional goals, such as making a restaurant reservation or booking a plane ticket, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems enable users to achieve their goals through natural language interactions. Traditionally, these systems have relied on turn-level manually annotated metadata, such as dialogue states and policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Adib Mosharrof , A. B. Siddique

This paper presents a novel task using real user data obtained in human-machine conversation. The task concerns with denotation extraction from answer hints collected interactively in a dialogue. The task is motivated by the need for large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) system is designed to accomplish user-defined tasks through dialogues. The TOD system has progressed towards end-to-end modeling by leveraging pre-trained large language models. Fine-tuning the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Dharmendra Prajapat , Durga Toshniwal

Multilingual task-oriented dialogue (ToD) facilitates access to services and information for many (communities of) speakers. Nevertheless, the potential of this technology is not fully realised, as current datasets for multilingual ToD -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Olga Majewska , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely adopted to enhance Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems (TODS) by modeling complex language patterns and delivering contextually appropriate responses. However, this integration introduces significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shuo Zhang , Junzhou Zhao , Junji Hou , Pinghui Wang , Chenxu Wang , Jing Tao

Data scarcity is one of the main problems when it comes to real-world applications of transformer-based models. This is especially evident for task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, which require specialized datasets, that are usually not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sebastian Steindl , Ulrich Schäfer , Bernd Ludwig