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In light of recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the expectations for the next generation of virtual assistants include enhanced naturalness and adaptability across diverse usage scenarios. However, the creation of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yinhong Liu , Yimai Fang , David Vandyke , Nigel Collier

Traditional intent classification models are based on a pre-defined intent set and only recognize limited in-domain (IND) intent classes. But users may input out-of-domain (OOD) queries in a practical dialogue system. Such OOD queries can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Yanan Wu , Pei Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

The underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice. In this work, we unify nine human-human and multi-turn task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Multimodal intent recognition poses significant challenges, requiring the incorporation of non-verbal modalities from real-world contexts to enhance the comprehension of human intentions. Existing benchmark datasets are limited in scale and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Hanlei Zhang , Xin Wang , Hua Xu , Qianrui Zhou , Kai Gao , Jianhua Su , jinyue Zhao , Wenrui Li , Yanting Chen

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

Modern task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM) agents, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and long-context capabilities for long-term memory utilization. However, these methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yiming Du , Bingbing Wang , Yang He , Bin Liang , Baojun Wang , Zhongyang Li , Lin Gui , Jeff Z. Pan , Ruifeng Xu , Kam-Fai Wong

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) benchmarks provide an important avenue to measure progress and develop better conversational agents. However, existing datasets for end-to-end ToD modeling are limited to a single language, hindering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Genta Indra Winata , Peng Xu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

The widespread adoption of large language models such as ChatGPT and Bard has led to unprecedented demand for these technologies. The burgeoning cost of inference for ever-increasing model sizes coupled with hardware shortages has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Vishvak Murahari , Ameet Deshpande , Carlos E. Jimenez , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Yuan Cao , Karthik Narasimhan

Conversational systems are of primary interest in the AI community. Chatbots are increasingly being deployed to provide round-the-clock support and to increase customer engagement. Many of the commercial bot building frameworks follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ajay Chatterjee , Shubhashis Sengupta

The tasks of out-of-domain (OOD) intent discovery and generalized intent discovery (GID) aim to extend a closed intent classifier to open-world intent sets, which is crucial to task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. Previous methods address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xiaoshuai Song , Keqing He , Pei Wang , Guanting Dong , Yutao Mou , Jingang Wang , Yunsen Xian , Xunliang Cai , Weiran Xu

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

In Task Oriented Dialogue (TOD) system, detecting and inducing new intents are two main challenges to apply the system in the real world. In this paper, we suggest the semantic multi-view model to resolve these two challenges: (1) SBERT for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hyukhun Koh , Haesung Pyun , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Intent detection and identification from multi-turn dialogue has become a widely explored technique in conversational agents, for example, voice assistants and intelligent customer services. The conventional approaches typically cast the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zengguang Hao , Jie Zhang , Binxia Xu , Yafang Wang , Gerard de Melo , Xiaolong Li

Modern task-oriented dialog systems need to reliably understand users' intents. Intent detection is most challenging when moving to new domains or new languages, since there is little annotated data. To address this challenge, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Li Zhang , Qing Lyu , Chris Callison-Burch

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

Chatbots have become one of the main pathways for the delivery of business automation tools. Multi-agent systems offer a framework for designing chatbots at scale, making it easier to support complex conversations that span across multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Burak Aksar , Yara Rizk , Tathagata Chakraborti

The reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs), defined as their ability to analyze, infer, and make decisions based on input information, is essential for building intelligent task-oriented dialogue systems. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yu Zhu , Kai Yang

Research on (multi-domain) task-oriented dialog (TOD) has predominantly focused on the English language, primarily due to the shortage of robust TOD datasets in other languages, preventing the systematic investigation of cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Chia-Chien Hung , Anne Lauscher , Ivan Vulić , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate coherent text, they often struggle to recognise user intent behind queries. In contrast, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models interpret the purpose and key information of user input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yan Li , So-Eon Kim , Seong-Bae Park , Soyeon Caren Han

Intent Detection is one of the tasks of the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) unit in task-oriented dialogue systems. Out of Scope (OOS) and Out of Domain (OOD) inputs may run these systems into a problem. On the other side, a labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Masoud Akbari , Ali Mohades , M. Hassan Shirali-Shahreza