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One of the major impediments to the development of new task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems is the need for human evaluation at multiple stages and iterations of the development process. In an effort to move toward automated evaluation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sam Davidson , Salvatore Romeo , Raphael Shu , James Gung , Arshit Gupta , Saab Mansour , Yi Zhang

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

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

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 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

Traditionally, offline datasets have been used to evaluate task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models. These datasets lack context awareness, making them suboptimal benchmarks for conversational systems. In contrast, user-agents, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Taaha Kazi , Ruiliang Lyu , Sizhe Zhou , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Gokhan Tur

Large language models (LLMs) have been used for diverse tasks in natural language processing (NLP), yet remain under-explored for task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), especially for end-to-end TODS. We present InstructTODS, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Willy Chung , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Bryan Wilie , Holy Lovenia , Pascale Fung

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

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

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

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems facilitate goal-driven interactions between users and machines. While recent advances in deep learning have improved the performance, TOD systems often struggle in low-resource scenarios with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Quang-Vinh Nguyen , Quang-Chieu Nguyen , Hoang Pham , Khac-Hoai Nam Bui

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are drawing more and more attention in recent studies. Current methods focus on constructing pre-trained models or fine-tuning strategies while the evaluation of TOD is limited by a policy mismatch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qinyuan Cheng , Linyang Li , Guofeng Quan , Feng Gao , Xiaofeng Mou , Xipeng Qiu

Large language models (LLMs) gained immense popularity due to their impressive capabilities in unstructured conversations. Empowering LLMs with advanced prompting strategies such as reasoning and acting (ReAct) (Yao et al., 2022) has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Michelle Elizabeth , Morgan Veyret , Miguel Couceiro , Ondrej Dusek , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

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 carry out specific tasks by tracking dialogue states and generating appropriate responses to help users achieve defined goals. Recently, end-to-end dialogue models pre-trained based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Namo Bang , Jeehyun Lee , Myoung-Wan Koo

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

Dialogue systems (DS), including the task-oriented dialogue system (TOD) and the open-domain dialogue system (ODD), have always been a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), allowing various applications in practice. Owing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hongru Wang , Lingzhi Wang , Yiming Du , Liang Chen , Jingyan Zhou , Yufei Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Pre-trained conversation models (PCMs) have achieved promising progress in recent years. However, existing PCMs for Task-oriented dialog (TOD) are insufficient for capturing the sequential nature of the TOD-related tasks, as well as for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lucen Zhong , Hengtong Lu , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang , Jiashen Sun , Ke Zeng , Guanglu Wan

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

Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coordinate interleaved goals, maintain long-horizon context, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yifei Zhang , Hooshang Nayyeri , Rinat Khaziev , Emine Yilmaz , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Hari Thadakamalla
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