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Dialogue contexts are proven helpful in the spoken language understanding (SLU) system and they are typically encoded with explicit memory representations. However, most of the previous models learn the context memory with only one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 He Bai , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a component of the task-oriented dialogue system. It is responsible for extracting and managing slot values according to dialogue utterances, where each slot represents an essential part of the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhoujian Sun , Zhengxing Huang , Nai Ding

Dialogue state tracking is an important component in task-oriented dialogue systems to identify users' goals and requests as a dialogue proceeds. However, as most previous models are dependent on dialogue slots, the model complexity soars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

There is an increasing demand for task-oriented dialogue systems which can assist users in various activities such as booking tickets and restaurant reservations. In order to complete dialogues effectively, dialogue policy plays a key role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Tian Lan , Xianling Mao , Heyan Huang

Task-oriented dialogue systems often employ a Dialogue State Tracker (DST) to successfully complete conversations. Recent state-of-the-art DST implementations rely on schemata of diverse services to improve model robustness and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Eleftherios Kapelonis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Automatically and accurately identifying user intents and filling the associated slots from their spoken language are critical to the success of dialogue systems. Traditional methods require manually defining the DOMAIN-INTENT-SLOT schema…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Zengfeng Zeng , Dan Ma , Haiqin Yang , Zhen Gou , Jianping Shen

Goal oriented dialogue systems were originally designed as a natural language interface to a fixed data-set of entities that users might inquire about, further described by domain, slots, and values. As we move towards adaptable dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Renato Vukovic , Michael Heck , Benjamin Matthias Ruppik , Carel van Niekerk , Marcus Zibrowius , Milica Gašić

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. DST estimates the user's goal at each user turn given the interaction until then. State of the art approaches for state tracking rely on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Word sense induction (WSI) is the task of unsupervised clustering of word usages within a sentence to distinguish senses. Recent work obtain strong results by clustering lexical substitutes derived from pre-trained RNN language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Asaf Amrami , Yoav Goldberg

Existing approaches to dialogue state tracking rely on pre-defined ontologies consisting of a set of all possible slot types and values. Though such approaches exhibit promising performance on single-domain benchmarks, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Liliang Ren , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

The medical dialogue system is a promising application that can provide great convenience for patients. The dialogue state tracking (DST) module in the medical dialogue system which interprets utterances into the machine-readable structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jun Liu , Tong Ruan , Haofen Wang , Huanhuan Zhang

Dialogue state tracking (DST) module is an important component for task-oriented dialog systems to understand users' goals and needs. Collecting dialogue state labels including slots and values can be costly, especially with the wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Yuting Yang , Wenqiang Lei , Pei Huang , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tat-Seng Chua

The goal of dialogue state tracking (DST) is to predict the current dialogue state given all previous dialogue contexts. Existing approaches generally predict the dialogue state at every turn from scratch. However, the overwhelming majority…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Jinyu Guo , Kai Shuang , Jijie Li , Zihan Wang

Dialog state tracking (DST) is a crucial component in a task-oriented dialog system for conversational information access. A common practice in current dialog systems is to define the dialog state by a set of slot-value pairs. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yinpei Dai , Zhijian Ou , Dawei Ren , Pengfei Yu

Extracting structure information from dialogue data can help us better understand user and system behaviors. In task-oriented dialogues, dialogue structure has often been considered as transition graphs among dialogue states. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Liang Qiu , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding (SLU) is a critical component, which consists of two sub-tasks, intent detection and slot filling. Most existing methods focus on the single-intent SLU, where each utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Liz Li , Wei Zhu

Slot filling is a fundamental task in dialog state tracking in task-oriented dialog systems. In multi-domain task-oriented dialog system, user utterances and system responses may mention multiple named entities and attributes values. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yuhao Ding , Yik-Cheung Tam

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are required to identify key information from conversations for the completion of given tasks. Such information is conventionally specified in terms of intents and slots contained in task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jeffrey Zhao , Raghav Gupta , Yuan Cao , Dian Yu , Mingqiu Wang , Harrison Lee , Abhinav Rastogi , Izhak Shafran , Yonghui Wu

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

In schema-guided dialogue state tracking models estimate the current state of a conversation using natural language descriptions of the service schema for generalization to unseen services. Prior generative approaches which decode slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Björn Bebensee , Haejun Lee