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This paper presents a novel application of large language models in user simulation for task-oriented dialog systems, specifically focusing on an in-context learning approach. By harnessing the power of these models, the proposed approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Silvia Terragni , Modestas Filipavicius , Nghia Khau , Bruna Guedes , André Manso , Roland Mathis

We demonstrate that large language models are able to simulate Task Oriented Dialogues in novel domains, provided only with an API implementation and a list of goals. We show these simulations can formulate online, automatic metrics that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Moya Chen , Paul A. Crook , Stephen Roller

Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been separately developed under two different categories, task-oriented and chit-chat. The former focuses on achieving functional goals and the latter aims at creating engaging social conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ye Liu , Stefan Ultes , Wolfgang Minker , Wolfgang Maier

This review gives an extensive overview of evaluation methods for task-oriented dialogue systems, paying special attention to practical applications of dialogue systems, for example for customer service. The review (1) provides an overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anouck Braggaar , Christine Liebrecht , Emiel van Miltenburg , Emiel Krahmer

A long-standing goal of task-oriented dialogue research is the ability to flexibly adapt dialogue models to new domains. To progress research in this direction, we introduce DialoGLUE (Dialogue Language Understanding Evaluation), a public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Shikib Mehri , Mihail Eric , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

We introduce doc2dial, a new dataset of goal-oriented dialogues that are grounded in the associated documents. Inspired by how the authors compose documents for guiding end users, we first construct dialogue flows based on the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Song Feng , Hui Wan , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

Though widely used in industry, traditional task-oriented dialogue systems suffer from three bottlenecks: (i) difficult ontology construction (e.g., intents and slots); (ii) poor controllability and interpretability; (iii)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xiangyu Xi , Chenxu Lv , Yuncheng Hua , Wei Ye , Chaobo Sun , Shuaipeng Liu , Fan Yang , Guanglu Wan

We describe a class of tasks called decision-oriented dialogues, in which AI assistants such as large language models (LMs) must collaborate with one or more humans via natural language to help them make complex decisions. We formalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jessy Lin , Nicholas Tomlin , Jacob Andreas , Jason Eisner

CleanS2S is a framework for human-like speech-to-speech interaction that advances conversational AI through single-file implementation and proactive dialogue capabilities. Our system integrates automatic speech recognition, large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yudong Lu , Yazhe Niu , Shuai Hu , Haolin Wang

Task-oriented dialogues often require agents to enact complex, multi-step procedures in order to meet user requests. While large language models have found success automating these dialogues in constrained environments, their widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Julia White , Arushi Raghuvanshi , Yada Pruksachatkun

Task-oriented dialogue systems have been plagued by the difficulties of obtaining large-scale and high-quality annotated conversations. Furthermore, most of the publicly available datasets only include written conversations, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xin Tian , Xinxian Huang , Dongfeng He , Yingzhan Lin , Siqi Bao , Huang He , Liankai Huang , Qiang Ju , Xiyuan Zhang , Jian Xie , Shuqi Sun , Fan Wang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Task oriented dialogue systems (TOD) complete particular tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions. Considering the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arezoo Saedi , Afsaneh Fatemi , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh , Sophie Rosset , Anne Vilnat

Neural task-oriented dialogue systems often struggle to smoothly interface with a knowledge base. In this work, we seek to address this problem by proposing a new neural dialogue agent that is able to effectively sustain grounded,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Mihail Eric , Christopher D. Manning

How to build and use dialogue data efficiently, and how to deploy models in different domains at scale can be two critical issues in building a task-oriented dialogue system. In this paper, we propose a novel manual-guided dialogue scheme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Ryuichi Takanobu , Hao Zhou , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Minlie Huang

Classic pipeline models for task-oriented dialogue system require explicit modeling the dialogue states and hand-crafted action spaces to query a domain-specific knowledge base. Conversely, sequence-to-sequence models learn to map dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Haoyang Wen , Yijia Liu , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin , Ting Liu

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

Task-oriented dialog systems have been applied in various tasks, such as automated personal assistants, customer service providers and tutors. These systems work well when users have clear and explicit intentions that are well-aligned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Zhou Yu , Alan W Black , Alexander I. Rudnicky

We introduce ParlAI (pronounced "par-lay"), an open-source software platform for dialog research implemented in Python, available at http://parl.ai. Its goal is to provide a unified framework for sharing, training and testing of dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Alexander H. Miller , Will Feng , Adam Fisch , Jiasen Lu , Dhruv Batra , Antoine Bordes , Devi Parikh , Jason Weston

Task-oriented dialogue systems aim at providing users with task-specific services. Users of such systems often do not know all the information about the task they are trying to accomplish, requiring them to seek information about the task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yue Feng , Hossein A. Rahmani , Aldo Lipani , Emine Yilmaz

Dialog response ranking is used to rank response candidates by considering their relation to the dialog history. Although researchers have addressed this concept for open-domain dialogs, little attention has been focused on task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Junki Ohmura , Maxine Eskenazi