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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

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

Clarifying user needs is essential for existing task-oriented dialogue systems. However, in real-world applications, developers can never guarantee that all possible user demands are taken into account in the design phase. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Weikang Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Qian Li , Mei-Yuh Hwang , Chengqing Zong , Zhifei Li

Task-oriented dialogue systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained increasing attention across various industries and achieved significant results. Current approaches condense complex procedural workflows into a single agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zihao Feng , Xiaoxue Wang , Bowen Wu , Weihong Zhong , Zhen Xu , Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao , Ying Li , Baoxun Wang

Developing language model-based dialogue agents requires effective data to train models that can follow specific task logic. However, most existing data simulation methods focus on increasing diversity in language, topics, or dialogue acts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wanyu Du , Song Feng , James Gung , Lijia Sun , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Yanjun Qi

Existing pipelined task-oriented dialogue systems usually have difficulties adapting to unseen domains, whereas end-to-end systems are plagued by large-scale knowledge bases in practice. In this paper, we introduce a novel query-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xin Tian , Yingzhan Lin , Mengfei Song , Siqi Bao , Fan Wang , Huang He , Shuqi Sun , Hua Wu

We introduce TAPAS (Task-based Adaptation and Planning using AgentS), a multi-agent framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with symbolic planning to solve complex tasks without the need for manually defined environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Harisankar Babu , Philipp Schillinger , Tamim Asfour

User simulators (USs) are commonly used to train task-oriented dialogue systems (DSs) via reinforcement learning. The interactions often take place on semantic level for efficiency, but there is still a gap from semantic actions to natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Hsien-Chin Lin , Christian Geishauser , Shutong Feng , Nurul Lubis , Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Milica Gašić

The concept of a Human-AI team has gained increasing attention in recent years. For effective collaboration between humans and AI teammates, proactivity is crucial for close coordination and effective communication. However, the design of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Matthias Kraus , Ron Riekenbrauck , Wolfgang Minker

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…

Creating effective and reliable task-oriented dialog systems (ToDSs) is challenging, not only because of the complex structure of these systems, but also due to the scarcity of training data, especially when several modules need to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christos Vlachos , Themos Stafylakis , Ion Androutsopoulos

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is designed to monitor the evolving dialogue state in the conversations and plays a pivotal role in developing task-oriented dialogue systems. However, obtaining the annotated data for the DST task is usually a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Cheng Niu , Xingguang Wang , Xuxin Cheng , Juntong Song , Tong Zhang

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

Objectives: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used to assist clinicians and support patients, no existing work has explored dialogue systems for standard diagnostic interviews and assessments. This study aims to bridge the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sichang Tu , Abigail Powers , Stephen Doogan , Jinho D. Choi

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

This work investigates the task-oriented dialogue problem in mixed-domain settings. We study the effect of alternating between different domains in sequences of dialogue turns using two related state-of-the-art dialogue systems. We first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Tho Luong Chi , Phuong Le-Hong

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems have been widely deployed in many industries as they deliver more efficient customer support. These systems are typically constructed for a single domain or language and do not generalise well beyond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nikita Moghe , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Liane Guillou , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Alexandra Birch

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

$ $Dialogue systems are evaluated depending on their type and purpose. Two categories are often distinguished: (1) task-oriented dialogue systems (TDS), which are typically evaluated on utility, i.e., their ability to complete a specified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Clemencia Siro , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Maarten de Rijke

Recent advancements in tool-augmented large language models have enabled them to interact with external tools, enhancing their ability to perform complex user tasks. However, existing approaches overlook the role of personalisation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ekaterina Taktasheva , Jeff Dalton