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Robust task-oriented spoken dialogue agents require exposure to the full diversity of how people interact through speech. Building spoken user simulators that address this requires large-scale spoken task-oriented dialogue (TOD) data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jonggeun Lee , Junseong Pyo , Jeongmin Park , Yohan Jo

Most existing works on dialog systems only consider conversation content while neglecting the personality of the user the bot is interacting with, which begets several unsolved issues. In this paper, we present a personalized end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Qi Zeng , Zaiqing Nie , Xu Sun

In this paper, we propose to formulate the task-oriented dialogue system as the purely natural language generation task, so as to fully leverage the large-scale pre-trained models like GPT-2 and simplify complicated delexicalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weizhi Wang , Zhirui Zhang , Junliang Guo , Yinpei Dai , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

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

Recent works have shown considerable improvements in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems by utilizing pretrained large language models (LLMs) in an end-to-end manner. However, the biased behavior of each component in a TOD system and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Hsuan Su , Rebecca Qian , Chinnadhurai Sankar , Shahin Shayandeh , Shang-Tse Chen , Hung-yi Lee , Daniel M. Bikel

Large Pre-Trained Language Models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in different downstream tasks, including dialogue state tracking and end-to-end response generation. Nevertheless, most of the publicly available datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Gabriel Roccabruna , Simone Alghisi , Massimo Rizzoli , Mirco Ravanelli , Giuseppe Riccardi

The goal of building intelligent dialogue systems has largely been separately pursued under two motives: task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, and open-domain systems for chit-chat (CC). Although previous TOD dialogue systems work well in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Changhong Yu , Chunhong Zhang , Qi Sun

This paper presents our task-oriented dialog system UBAR which models task-oriented dialogs on a dialog session level. Specifically, UBAR is acquired by fine-tuning the large pre-trained unidirectional language model GPT-2 on the sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yunyi Yang , Yunhao Li , Xiaojun Quan

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

Task-oriented dialog systems have witnessed substantial progress due to conversational pre-training techniques. Yet, two significant challenges persist. First, most systems primarily utilize the latest turn's state label for the generator.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Longxiang Liu , Xiuxing Li , Yang Feng

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems have assisted users on many tasks, including ticket booking and service inquiries. While existing TOD systems have shown promising performance in serving customer needs, these systems mostly assume that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Kaa-Wei Lee , Nancy F. Chen

Task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems typically manage structured knowledge (e.g. ontologies and databases) to guide the goal-oriented conversations. However, they fall short of handling dialog turns grounded on unstructured knowledge (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Silin Gao , Ryuichi Takanobu , Wei Peng , Qun Liu , Minlie Huang

The recent advent of neural approaches for developing each dialog component in task-oriented dialog systems has remarkably improved, yet optimizing the overall system performance remains a challenge. Besides, previous research on modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Hwaran Lee , Seokhwan Jo , HyungJun Kim , Sangkeun Jung , Tae-Yoon Kim

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a pivotal component in task-oriented dialogue systems. While it is relatively easy for a DST model to capture belief states in short conversations, the task of DST becomes more challenging as the length of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ye Zhang , Yuan Cao , Mahdis Mahdieh , Jeffrey Zhao , Yonghui Wu

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

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

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

Prompt engineering can significantly improve the performance of large language models (LLMs), with automated prompt optimization (APO) gaining significant attention due to the time-consuming and laborious nature of manual prompt design.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Wenxin Luo , Weirui Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Weibo Zhou , Pengyue Jia , Xiangyu Zhao

Current task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems mostly manage structured knowledge (e.g. databases and tables) to guide the goal-oriented conversations. However, they fall short of handling dialogs which also involve unstructured knowledge (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Silin Gao , Ryuichi Takanobu , Antoine Bosselut , Minlie Huang

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models have made significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on datasets written by annotators, which has resulted in a gap between academic research and real-world spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuzheng Si , Wentao Ma , Haoyu Gao , Yuchuan Wu , Ting-En Lin , Yinpei Dai , Hangyu Li , Rui Yan , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li