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Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is widely-accepted in Natural Language Processing as a standard technique for learning multiple related tasks in one model. Training an MTL model requires having the training data for all tasks available at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sudipta Kar , Giuseppe Castellucci , Simone Filice , Shervin Malmasi , Oleg Rokhlenko

There has been a rapid development in data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems with the benefit of large-scale datasets. However, the progress of dialogue systems in low-resource languages lags far behind due to the lack of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

In task-oriented multi-turn dialogue systems, dialogue state refers to a compact representation of the user goal in the context of dialogue history. Dialogue state tracking (DST) is to estimate the dialogue state at each turn. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhi Chen , Lu Chen , Yanbin Zhao , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is a pivotal component in task-oriented dialogue systems. While it is relatively easy for a DST model to capture belief states in short conversations, the task of DST becomes more challenging as the length of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ye Zhang , Yuan Cao , Mahdis Mahdieh , Jeffrey Zhao , Yonghui Wu

In task-oriented dialogue systems, Dialogue State Tracking (DST) aims to extract users' intentions from the dialogue history. Currently, most existing approaches suffer from error propagation and are unable to dynamically select relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jing Xu , Dandan Song , Chong Liu , Siu Cheung Hui , Fei Li , Qiang Ju , Xiaonan He , Jian Xie

An ideal dialogue system requires continuous skill acquisition and adaptation to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. Dialogue State Tracking (DST), vital in these systems, often involves learning new services and confronting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yujie Feng , Bo Liu , Xiaoyu Dong , Zexin Lu , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant progress in various domains, but scaling it to long-horizon tasks with complex decision-making remains challenging. Skill learning attempts to address this by abstracting actions into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jinwoo Choi , Seung-Woo Seo

Maintaining engagement and consistency is particularly important in dialogue systems. Existing works have improved the performance of dialogue systems by intentionally learning interlocutor personas with sophisticated network structures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ruijun Chen , Jin Wang , Liang-Chih Yu , Xuejie Zhang

The size and the computational load of fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained neural network are becoming two major obstacles in adopting machine learning in many applications. Continual learning (CL) can serve as a remedy through enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuliang Cai , Jesse Thomason , Mohammad Rostami

Dialog state tracking is used to estimate the current belief state of a dialog given all the preceding conversation. Machine reading comprehension, on the other hand, focuses on building systems that read passages of text and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

A Dialogue State Tracker is a key component in dialogue systems which estimates the beliefs of possible user goals at each dialogue turn. Deep learning approaches using recurrent neural networks have shown state-of-the-art performance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini

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

Recent works in dialogue state tracking (DST) focus on an open vocabulary-based setting to resolve scalability and generalization issues of the predefined ontology-based approaches. However, they are inefficient in that they predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sungdong Kim , Sohee Yang , Gyuwan Kim , Sang-Woo Lee

Task-oriented dialogue systems have become overwhelmingly popular in recent researches. Dialogue understanding is widely used to comprehend users' intent, emotion and dialogue state in task-oriented dialogue systems. Most previous works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Nan Su , Yuchi Zhang , Chao Liu , Bingzhu Du , Yongliang Wang

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 an essential sub-task for task-oriented dialogue systems. Recent work has focused on deep neural models for DST. However, the neural models require a large dataset for training. Furthermore, applying them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hyunmin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

Sequence-to-sequence state-of-the-art systems for dialogue state tracking (DST) use the full dialogue history as input, represent the current state as a list with all the slots, and generate the entire state from scratch at each dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pietro Lesci , Yoshinari Fujinuma , Momchil Hardalov , Chao Shang , Yassine Benajiba , Lluis Marquez

This paper presents a model for end-to-end learning of task-oriented dialog systems. The main component of the model is a recurrent neural network (an LSTM), which maps from raw dialog history directly to a distribution over system actions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jason D. Williams , Geoffrey Zweig

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 (DST) is a key part of task-oriented dialogue systems, identifying important information in conversations. However, its accuracy drops significantly in spoken dialogue environments due to named entity errors from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jihyun Lee , Solee Im , Wonjun Lee , Gary Geunbae Lee