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Recent studies in dialogue state tracking (DST) leverage historical information to determine states which are generally represented as slot-value pairs. However, most of them have limitations to efficiently exploit relevant context due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yong Shan , Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou

A dialog state tracker is an important component in modern spoken dialog systems. We present an incremental dialog state tracker, based on LSTM networks. It directly uses automatic speech recognition hypotheses to track the state. We also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Lukas Zilka , Filip Jurcicek

This paper describes our approach to DSTC 9 Track 2: Cross-lingual Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking, the task goal is to build a Cross-lingual dialog state tracker with a training set in rich resource language and a testing set in low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Min Mao , Jiasheng Liu , Jingyao Zhou , Haipang Wu

In a task-oriented dialog system, the goal of dialog state tracking (DST) is to monitor the state of the conversation from the dialog history. Recently, many deep learning based methods have been proposed for the task. Despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tuan Manh Lai , Quan Hung Tran , Trung Bui , Daisuke Kihara

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

While communicating with a user, a task-oriented dialogue system has to track the user's needs at each turn according to the conversation history. This process called dialogue state tracking (DST) is crucial because it directly informs the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Léo Jacqmin , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Benoit Favre

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to extract essential information from multi-turn dialogue situations and take appropriate actions. A belief state, one of the core pieces of information, refers to the subject and its specific content, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Takyoung Kim , Hoonsang Yoon , Yukyung Lee , Pilsung Kang , Misuk Kim

In-context learning with Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising avenue of research in Dialog State Tracking (DST). However, the best-performing in-context learning methods involve retrieving and adding similar examples to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Atharva Kulkarni , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , Dhivya Piraviperumal , Hong Yu , Shruti Bhargava

We investigate the problem of multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking (DST) with open vocabulary, which aims to extract the state from the dialogue. Existing approaches usually concatenate previous dialogue state with dialogue history as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yan Zeng , Jian-Yun Nie

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is critical for comprehensively interpreting user and system utterances, thereby forming the cornerstone of efficient dialogue systems. Despite past research efforts focused on enhancing DST performance through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yukyung Lee , Takyoung Kim , Hoonsang Yoon , Pilsung Kang , Junseong Bang , Misuk Kim

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services. Motivated by the insight that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hyundong Cho , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Satwik Kottur , Jing Xu , Jonathan May , Chinnadhurai Sankar

Although there have been remarkable advances in dialogue systems through the dialogue systems technology competition (DSTC), it remains one of the key challenges to building a robust task-oriented dialogue system with a speech interface.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jaeseok Yoon , Seunghyun Hwang , Ran Han , Jeonguk Bang , Kee-Eung Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been applied in the speech domain, often incurring a performance drop due to misaligned between speech and language representations. To bridge this gap, we propose a joint speech and language model (SLM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Mingqiu Wang , Izhak Shafran , Hagen Soltau , Wei Han , Yuan Cao , Dian Yu , Laurent El Shafey

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

Zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) seeks to enable dialogue systems to transition to unfamiliar domains without manual annotation or extensive retraining. Prior research has approached this objective by embedding prompts into language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Xiang Luo , Zhiwen Tang , Jin Wang , Xuejie Zhang

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

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

Prompt-based methods with large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown impressive unaided performance across many NLP tasks. These models improve even further with the addition of a few labeled in-context exemplars to guide output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Derek Chen , Kun Qian , Zhou Yu

Though Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is a core component of spoken dialogue systems, recent work on this task mostly deals with chat corpora, disregarding the discrepancies between spoken and written language.In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Léo Jacqmin , Lucas Druart , Yannick Estève , Benoît Favre , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Valentin Vielzeuf

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is evaluated by exact matching methods, which rely on large amounts of labeled data and ignore semantic consistency, leading to over-evaluation. Currently, leveraging large language models (LLM) in evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ming Gu , Yan Yang