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Task-oriented Dialogue (TOD) Systems aim to build dialogue systems that assist users in accomplishing specific goals, such as booking a hotel or a restaurant. Traditional TODs rely on domain-specific APIs/DBs or external factual knowledge…

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

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

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems aim to efficiently handle task-oriented conversations, including information collection. How to utilize TOD accurately, efficiently and effectively for information collection has always been a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ming Zhang , Caishuang Huang , Yilong Wu , Shichun Liu , Huiyuan Zheng , Yurui Dong , Yujiong Shen , Shihan Dou , Jun Zhao , Junjie Ye , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Xuanjing Huang

Efficient knowledge retrieval plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of end-to-end task-oriented dialogue systems by facilitating the selection of relevant information necessary to fulfill user requests. However, current approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tianyuan Shi , Liangzhi Li , Zijian Lin , Tao Yang , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang

An important unexplored aspect in previous work on user satisfaction estimation for Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems is their evaluation in terms of robustness for the identification of user dissatisfaction: current benchmarks for user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Amin Abolghasemi , Zhaochun Ren , Arian Askari , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Maarten de Rijke , Suzan Verberne

Dialogue policy optimization often obtains feedback until task completion in task-oriented dialogue systems. This is insufficient for training intermediate dialogue turns since supervision signals (or rewards) are only provided at the end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xinting Huang , Jianzhong Qi , Yu Sun , Rui Zhang

Knowledge-based dialogue systems with internet retrieval have recently attracted considerable attention from researchers. The dialogue systems overcome a major limitation of traditional knowledge dialogue systems, where the timeliness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhongtian Hu , Yangqi Chen , Meng Zhao , Ronghan Li , Lifang Wang

Existing conversational models are handled by a database(DB) and API based systems. However, very often users' questions require information that cannot be handled by such systems. Nonetheless, answers to these questions are available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Raja Kumar

Text-based dialogues are now widely used to solve real-world problems. In cases where solution strategies are already known, they can sometimes be codified into workflows and used to guide humans or artificial agents through the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Amine El Hattami , Stefania Raimondo , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Pau Rodriguez , Chris Pal

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems facilitate users in executing various activities via multi-turn dialogues, but Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to comprehend these intricate contexts. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Haoyu Gao , Ting-En Lin , Hangyu Li , Min Yang , Yuchuan Wu , Wentao Ma , Yongbin Li

End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialog (TOD) systems typically require extensive training datasets to perform well. In contrast, large language model (LLM) based TOD systems can excel even with limited data due to their ability to learn tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Vishal Vivek Saley , Rocktim Jyoti Das , Dinesh Raghu , Mausam

Consistency Identification has obtained remarkable success on open-domain dialogue, which can be used for preventing inconsistent response generation. However, in contrast to the rapid development in open-domain dialogue, few efforts have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Libo Qin , Tianbao Xie , Shijue Huang , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Wanxiang Che

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as general-purpose knowledge sources, but they rely on parametric knowledge, limiting explainability and trustworthiness. In task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, this separation is explicit,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Renato Vukovic , Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Benjamin Ruppik , Hsien-Chin Lin , Shutong Feng , Nurul Lubis , Milica Gasic

Traditional task-oriented dialog (ToD) systems rely heavily on labor-intensive turn-level annotations, such as dialogue states and policy labels, for training. This work explores whether large language models (LLMs) can be fine-tuned solely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Adib Mosharrof , Moghis Fereidouni , A. B. Siddique

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are designed to help users achieve specific goals through natural language interaction. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved linguistic fluency and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shutong Feng , Hsien-chin Lin , Nurul Lubis , Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Benjamin Ruppik , Renato Vukovic , Milica Gašić

Task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems facilitate users in accomplishing complex, multi-turn tasks through natural language. While instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on a range of single-turn NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Moghis Fereidouni , Md Sajid Ahmed , Adib Mosharrof , A. B. Siddique

Knowledge retrieval is one of the major challenges in building a knowledge-grounded dialogue system. A common method is to use a neural retriever with a distributed approximate nearest-neighbor database to quickly find the relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nhat Tran , Diane Litman

Intelligent task-oriented dialogue systems (ToDs) are expected to continuously acquire new knowledge, also known as Continual Learning (CL), which is crucial to fit ever-changing user needs. However, catastrophic forgetting dramatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Yuchen Hu , Yuanyuan Chen , Chengwei Qin , Qiang Zhang

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are mainly based on the slot-filling-based TOD (SF-TOD) framework, in which dialogues are broken down into smaller, controllable units (i.e., slots) to fulfill a specific task. A series of approaches…