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We present DIALIGHT, a toolkit for developing and evaluating multilingual Task-Oriented Dialogue (ToD) systems which facilitates systematic evaluations and comparisons between ToD systems using fine-tuning of Pretrained Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Songbo Hu , Xiaobin Wang , Zhangdie Yuan , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

The recent development of language models has shown promising results by achieving state-of-the-art performance on various natural language tasks by fine-tuning pretrained models. In task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems, language models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Vinsen Marselino Andreas , Genta Indra Winata , Ayu Purwarianti

Mainstream cross-lingual task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems leverage the transfer learning paradigm by training a joint model for intent recognition and slot-filling in English and applying it, zero-shot, to other languages. We address a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ekaterina Artemova , Verena Blaschke , Barbara Plank

Pre-trained language models have been recently shown to benefit task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. Despite their success, existing methods often formulate this task as a cascaded generation problem which can lead to error accumulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yixuan Su , Lei Shu , Elman Mansimov , Arshit Gupta , Deng Cai , Yi-An Lai , Yi Zhang

Existing studies in conversational AI mostly treat task-oriented dialog (TOD) and question answering (QA) as separate tasks. Towards the goal of constructing a conversational agent that can complete user tasks and support information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Miaoran Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Zhu Zhang

During task-oriented dialogues (TODs), human users naturally introduce chitchat that is beyond the immediate scope of the task, interfering with the flow of the conversation. To address this issue without the need for expensive manual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Armand Stricker , Patrick Paroubek

Dialogue systems and large language models (LLMs) have gained considerable attention. However, the direct utilization of LLMs as task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models has been found to underperform compared to smaller task-specific models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhiyuan Hu , Yue Feng , Anh Tuan Luu , Bryan Hooi , Aldo Lipani

Recent research in dialogue systems and corpora has focused on two main categories: task-oriented (TOD) and open-domain (chit-chat) dialogues. TOD systems help users accomplish specific tasks, while open-domain systems aim to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wen-Yu Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

A significant application of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, is their deployment as chat agents, which respond to human inquiries across a variety of domains. While current LLMs proficiently answer general questions, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lang Cao

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

This survey provides a comprehensive review of research on multi-turn dialogue systems, with a particular focus on multi-turn dialogue systems based on large language models (LLMs). This paper aims to (a) give a summary of existing LLMs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zihao Yi , Jiarui Ouyang , Zhe Xu , Yuwen Liu , Tianhao Liao , Haohao Luo , Ying Shen

The emergence of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) has advanced the field of dialogue systems, enabling both realistic user simulations and robust multi-turn conversational agents. However, existing research often evaluates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chalamalasetti Kranti , Sherzod Hakimov , David Schlangen

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are designed to fulfill user requests through natural language interactions, yet existing systems often produce generic, monotonic responses that lack individuality and fail to adapt to users' personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jihyun Lee , Yejin Jeon , Seungyeon Seo , Gary Geunbae Lee

This paper explores SynTOD, a new synthetic data generation approach for developing end-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) Systems capable of handling complex tasks such as intent classification, slot filling, conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Chris Samarinas , Pracha Promthaw , Atharva Nijasure , Hansi Zeng , Julian Killingback , Hamed Zamani

One of the major drawbacks of modularized task-completion dialogue systems is that each module is trained individually, which presents several challenges. For example, downstream modules are affected by earlier modules, and the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Xiujun Li , Yun-Nung Chen , Lihong Li , Jianfeng Gao , Asli Celikyilmaz

With the advances in deep learning, tremendous progress has been made with chit-chat dialogue systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. However, these two systems are often tackled separately in current methods. To achieve more natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xinyan Zhao , Bin He , Yasheng Wang , Yitong Li , Fei Mi , Yajiao Liu , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Huanhuan Chen

In spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, the choice of the semantic representation describing the users' requests is key to a smooth interaction. Indeed, the system uses this representation to reason over a database and its domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lucas Druart , Valentin Vielzeuf , Yannick Estève

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on many reasoning benchmarks, yet these evaluations typically focus on isolated tasks that differ from real-world usage in task-oriented dialogue (TOD). In this setting, LLMs must…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ivan Kartáč , Mateusz Lango , Ondřej Dušek

Task-oriented dialog systems enable users to accomplish tasks using natural language. State-of-the-art systems respond to users in the same way regardless of their personalities, although personalizing dialogues can lead to higher levels of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-27 A. B. Siddique , M. H. Maqbool , Kshitija Taywade , Hassan Foroosh

The underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice. In this work, we unify nine human-human and multi-turn task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong