State Tracking & Chatbots

Notes:

In dialog systems, state tracking, also known as belief tracking, refers to the process of accurately estimating the user’s goal as the dialog progresses. In a dialog system, the state or belief is the system’s current understanding of the user’s intention or goal, based on the user’s previous inputs and the system’s responses. State tracking is an important component of dialog systems, because it allows the system to keep track of the user’s goal and to respond appropriately as the dialog progresses.

State tracking can be implemented using a variety of techniques, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and other AI technologies. These techniques can help the system to interpret the user’s inputs, identify the user’s goal, and generate appropriate responses. By accurately tracking the user’s state or belief, a dialog system can provide more effective and efficient support to the user, and can improve the overall user experience. State tracking is a key component of many modern dialog systems, and is essential for creating effective and engaging conversational experiences.

  • Dialog state refers to the current state of a dialog or conversation, including the context, goals, and information exchanged so far. In a dialog system like a chatbot, the dialog state is used to track the progress of the conversation and to generate appropriate responses.
  • Dialog state tracker is a component of a dialog system that is responsible for tracking the dialog state and updating it as the conversation progresses. Dialog state trackers may use a variety of techniques, such as rule-based systems, machine learning, or natural language processing (NLP) to track the dialog state and to understand the intent and meaning of user input. Dialog state trackers are an important part of dialog systems, as they help the system to understand the context and goals of the conversation and to generate appropriate responses.
  • Rule-based tracker is a type of dialog state tracker that uses predefined rules to track the dialog state and to understand the intent and meaning of user input. Rule-based trackers are based on the idea that the dialog state can be updated based on a set of pre-defined rules, which may be based on the syntax, semantics, or context of the conversation.
  • Stacked relational trees (SRTs) are a type of data structure that is used to represent and manipulate hierarchical data. SRTs are composed of nodes, which can contain other nodes or leaf nodes (which contain data). SRTs are useful for representing and manipulating data that has a tree-like structure, such as the structure of a dialog or conversation.

Resources:

References:

  • Neural Approaches to Conversational AI: Question Answering, Task-oriented Dialogues and Social Chatbots (2019)

See also:

100 Best State Machine Videos | 100 Best Unity3d State Machine Assets | ISU (Information State Update) Dialog Systems | Slot Filling & Chatbots 2019 | State Machine & Dialog Systems 2018 | State Machines & Cognitive Architecture 2018

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… 2. The benefits of using dialog systems are manifold, these sys- tems can answer to complex questions and … Convlab: Multi-domain end-to-end dialog system platform … A simple and generic belief tracking mechanism for the di- alogue state tracking challenge: On the believabil- ity …

Knowledge-incorporating ESIM models for response selection in retrieval-based dialog systems
J Ganhotra, SS Patel, K Fadnis – arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05792, 2019 – arxiv.org
… DSTC) was initially started to serve as a testbed for dialog state tracking task and … that makes use of similar conversations for the generation-based dialog system and achieved … Work In this paper, we introduced two knowledge incorporating end-to-end dialog systems for retrieval …

Proactive Knowledge-Goals Dialogue System Based on Pointer Network
H Zhou, C Chen, H Liu, F Qin, H Liang – CCF International Conference on …, 2019 – Springer
… a set of modules for natural language understanding [9, 10], dialogue state tracking [11], dialogue … 3. End-to-end dialog system for the model with context choosing, gated self-attention and … Lian, R., Xie, M.: Learning to select knowledge for response generation in dialog systems …

Multi-attending Memory Network for Modeling Multi-turn Dialogue
J Ren, L Yang, C Zuo, W Kong, X Ma – Proceedings of the 2019 3rd High …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… We evaluate our model on the bAbI-dialog dataset [9], which was collected or generated from a typical task-oriented multi-turn dialogue system … T6: Dialogue state tracking 2 41.1(0) 42.5(0) 41.0(0) 43.6(0) … A survey on dialogue systems: Recent advances and new frontiers …

Adversarial Language Games for Advanced Natural Language Intelligence
Y Yao, H Zhong, Z Zhang, X Han, X Wang… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Besides, knowledge graphs are very useful for the conditional language generation and have been widely used in the dialog systems (Vougiouk- lis et al., 2016 … Iris: a chat- oriented dialogue system based on the vector space model … The second dialog state tracking challenge …

The eighth dialog system technology challenge
S Kim, M Galley, C Gunasekara, S Lee… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… to combine end-to-end conversation and end-to-end multimodal video description models into a single end-to-end differentiable network to build scene-aware dialog systems … The fifth dialog state tracking challenge … ConvLab: Multi-domain end-to-end dialog system platform …

FASTDial: Abstracting Dialogue Policies for Fast Development of Task Oriented Agents
SS Tekiroglu, B Magnini, M Guerini – … of the 57th Annual Meeting of the …, 2019 – aclweb.org
… 2013. Dialog state tracking challenge 2&3. Daniel Jurafsky and James H Martin. 2017 … P. Lison and C. Kennington. 2016. Opendial: A toolkit for developing spoken dialogue systems with probabilistic rules … 2017. Pydial: A multi- domain statistical dialogue system toolkit …

Acute-eval: Improved dialogue evaluation with optimized questions and multi-turn comparisons
M Li, J Weston, S Roller – arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03087, 2019 – arxiv.org
Page 1. ACUTE-EVAL: Improved dialogue evaluation with optimized questions and multi-turn comparisons Margaret Li Facebook AI Research margaretli@fb.com Jason Weston Facebook AI Research jase@fb.com Stephen Roller Facebook AI Research roller@fb.com Abstract …

Text Summarization for Chatbots
M Lustig – 2019 – support.dce.felk.cvut.cz
… between states of an automaton in the frame based dialogue system can be based … The area of dialogue systems development resembles more an alchemy than a strict … information one after another user utterance understanding, dialogue frame/state tracking, appropriate action …

RGTI: Response generation via templates integration for End to End dialog
Y Zhang, S Liu – 2019 – openreview.net
… et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2016), which is used to understand human intention, dialogue state tracking … has been little work around the use of transformer on end-to-end dialog system … Trainable sentence planning for complex information presentations in spoken dialog systems …

Offline and online satisfaction prediction in open-domain conversational systems
JI Choi, A Ahmadvand, E Agichtein – Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… evaluate ConvSAT on a publicly available dialogue breakdown detection challenge 3 (DBDC3) dataset, generated by human users talking to different chatbots … Dialogue system technology challenges (DSTC), originally known as the dialogue state tracking challenges, were …

Introducing MANtIS: a novel multi-domain information seeking dialogues dataset
G Penha, A Balan, C Hauff – arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04639, 2019 – arxiv.org
… elicit how existing tasks and test collections from the fields of IR, natural language processing (NLP) and dialogue systems (DS) fit … 4 A generic dialogue system is composed of the following: natural language understand- ing ? dialogue state tracking ? policy learning …

When is ACL’s Deadline? A Scientific Conversational Agent
M Mesgar, P Youssef, L Li, D Bierwirth, Y Li… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… 2017. Frames: A corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00057 … 2014. The second dialog state tracking challenge … 2017. A network- based end-to-end trainable task-oriented dialogue system …

Task-oriented Dialogue System Based on Reinforcement Learning
M Song, Z Chen, P Niu… – 2019 IEEE 10th …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Taking a spoken dialog system to the real world[C]//Ninth European conference on speech … The dialog state tracking challenge[C]//Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference … Pomdp-based statistical spoken dialog systems: A review[J]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013, 101(5 …

Slugbot: Developing a computational model andframework of a novel dialogue genre
KK Bowden, J Wu, W Cui, J Juraska, V Harrison… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Discourse coherence in SCRIPT MODEL dialogue systems is created by the user interaction designer … Other existing retrieval based chatbots also operate on large existing corpora such as … Negative users, we would suggests some resources in our dialogue system to improve …

Domain Transfer in Dialogue Systems without Turn-Level Supervision
J Bingel, VPB Hansen, AV Gonzalez… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… In developing goal-oriented dialogue systems, dialogue state tracking (DST) refers to … For example, in a chatbot-based train reser- vation system, DST amounts to understanding key information provided by the user as slot-value pairs, such as the desired departure and …

Expanding on the end-to-end memory network for goal-oriented dialogue
PA Taraldsen, V Vatne – 2019 – uia.brage.unit.no
… of the Dialog System Technology Challenge: building an end- to-end dialog system for goal … V., Taraldsen, PA, Jafari, R., Goodwin, M., Granmo, O- C. (2019): Dialogue Systems using End … There are many benefits of using goal-oriented dialog systems and their applications can …

Challenge discussion: advancing multimodal dialogue
J Allen, E André, PR Cohen, D Hakkani-Tür… – The Handbook of …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… How can dialogue systems be built to be robust to dialogue failures, such as failures of understanding, or even simply to changes in the world (eg, the bus … 5.2.2 Chatbot Dialogues Many groups have been building so-called “chatbots” that mimic conversational engagement …

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Text and Speech
U Kamath, J Liu, J Whitaker – Deep Learning for NLP and Speech …, 2019 – Springer
… Open image in new window. 13.4 DRL for Text. Deep reinforcement learning methods have been recently applied to a variety of natural language processing tasks on text. In particular, they have been very successful in building conversational agents and dialogue systems …

The artificial facilitator: guiding participants in developing causal maps using voice-activated technologies
T Reddy, PJ Giabbanelli, VK Mago – International Conference on Human …, 2019 – Springer
… is so common that the system may be presented as a slot-based dialog system [55 … First, we used hand-crafted rules, which is more in line with early spoken dialog systems than with … discriminative machine-learned methods are now the state-of-the-art in dialog state tracking” [55 …

Goal-oriented dialogue policy learning from failures
K Lu, S Zhang, X Chen – Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2019 – aaai.org
… dia- logue systems usually aim at concise conversations.1 Such dialogue systems typically include … and parsing the language in- puts into inner representations, a belief state tracking com- ponent … 1In comparison, the Chatbots that want to maximize social en- gagement, such as …

Reinforcement learning for Dialogue Systems optimization with user adaptation.
N Carrara – 2019 – tel.archives-ouvertes.fr
… The first proposed approach involves clustering of Dialogue Systems (tailored for their respective user) based on their behaviours … The second idea states that before using a dedicated Dialogue System, the first in- teractions with a user should be handled carefully by a safe …

Deep conversational recommender in travel
L Liao, R Takanobu, Y Ma, X Yang, M Huang… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… ontology and heavy reliance on slot filling as well as dialog state tracking techniques limits … user prefers an item to another, while a typical task oriented dialog system often directly … line of approaches using reinforcement learning (RL) to train goal-oriented dialog systems [10], [28 …

Intent Classification for Dialogue Utterances
J Schuurmans, F Frasincar – IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In order to classify intents of customers, a dialogue system needs to analyze the … 6. M. Henderson, B. Thomson, and S. Young, “Word- based dialog state tracking with recurrent … H. Zhou, S. Biswas, and M. Huang, “Augmenting end-to-end dialogue systems with commonsense …

How to build user simulators to train rl-based dialog systems
W Shi, K Qian, X Wang, Z Yu – arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01388, 2019 – arxiv.org
… both rate the dialogs generated by the user simu- lators, and interact with the dialog systems trained with them, in order to … simulators in the standard restaurant search domain and publish the code to facilitate further development of RL-based dialog system training algorithms …

Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue
CN Bonial, L Donatelli, J Ervin… – Proceedings of the …, 2019 – scholarworks.umass.edu
… Abstract In this research, we begin to tackle the challenge of natural language understanding (NLU) in the context of the development of a robot dialogue system … This stands in con- trast to many other dialogue systems, such as task- oriented chat bots, which do not require …

Self-Attentional Models Application in Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation Systems
M Saffar Mehrjardi – 2019 – era.library.ualberta.ca
… DCN Deep Convex Network DSTC Dialogue State Tracking Challenge FAQ Frequently Asked Questions … engaged when they feel that they have become friends with the chatbot. Ama … chatbots, and customer-service chatbots. Deployment of task-oriented chat …

The speech interface as an attack surface: an overview
M Bispham, I Agrafiotis, M Goldsmith – International Journal On …, 2019 – ora.ox.ac.uk
… inference for belief state tracking to determine the most likely interpretation of a user’s … controlled digital assistants implement the generic components of speech dialogue systems in the … digital assistants include, in addition to the generic speech dialogue system components, an …

Using a KG-Copy Network for Non-Goal Oriented Dialogues
D Chaudhuri, MRAH Rony, S Jordan… – International Semantic …, 2019 – Springer
… system were also proposed by [37] for jointly learning dialogue state-tracking [32] and … proposed a generative model namely Mem2Seq for a task-oriented dialog system which combines … Dodge, J., et al.: Evaluating prerequisite qualities for learning end-to-end dialog systems …

Creating Dynamic Robot Utterances in Human-Robot Social Interaction: Comparison of a Selection-Based Approach and a Neural Network Approach on Giving Robot …
P Andersson, ES Ko – 2019 – diva-portal.org
… 6 Did the chatbot give ample conversation space between you and your conversation partner … systems 4 par- ticipants were asked to participate in testing of the different dialogue systems. The test was conducted by participants interacting with each dialogue system and lasted 5 …

Sketch-Fill-AR: A Persona-Grounded Chit-Chat Generation Framework
M Shum, S Zheng, W Kry?ci?ski, C Xiong… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… undirected chit-chat dialogue agent. Historically task-oriented dialogue systems are composed via components such as dialogue state tracking and natural language generation (Jurafsky and Martin, 2009). Even now, the natural …

FinBrain: when finance meets AI 2.0
X Zheng, M Zhu, Q Li, C Chen, Y Tan – Frontiers of Information Technology …, 2019 – Springer
… Traditional dialogue systems use a set of pre-programmed rules and thus cannot cope with non … based dialogue agent called KB-infoBot to perform knowledge-based accessing, dialogue state tracking, and policy … (2017) presented a task- completion dialogue system to complete …

MIDS: End-to-End Personalized Response Generation in Untrimmed Multi-Role Dialogue*
Q Yang, Z He, Z Zhan, J Zhao… – 2019 International Joint …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… in Section Motivation, by giving the motivation and application of multi-role dialogue systems … Besides, the role information is also involved into dialogue state tracking [21], dialogue policy … The combination of these components realizes the multi-role dialogue system, as shown …

Retrieval-based Goal-Oriented Dialogue Generation
AV Gonzalez, I Augenstein, A Søgaard – arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13717, 2019 – arxiv.org
… 2014. Word-based dialog state tracking with recurrent neural networks … End-to-end task-completion neural dialogue systems. In IJCNLP … 2016. How not to evaluate your dialogue system: An empirical study of unsupervised evaluation metrics for dialogue response generation …

WAAC: An End-to-End Web API Automatic Calls Approach for Goal-Oriented Intelligent Services
Y Li, S Liu, T Jin, H Gao – International Journal of Software …, 2019 – World Scientific
… improve slot ?lling and domain and intent classi?cation or di- alogue state tracking for an … To apply the dialog system to practice, researchers [30–32] have made in-depth research on … Sequence-to-sequence learning has also been applied in dialog systems for user modeling …

Can Virtual Assistants Produce Recommendations?
D Rafailidis, Y Manolopoulos – … of the 9th International Conference on …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… progress of deep learning and neural NLP research, especially on natural language dialog systems, virtual assistants … A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System … Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep …

Evaluating and enhancing the robustness of dialogue systems: A case study on a negotiation agent
M Cheng, W Wei, CJ Hsieh – Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the …, 2019 – aclweb.org
… on crafting adversarial agents instead of adversarial examples in an interac- tive dialogue system … that our algorithm can be generalized to other goal-oriented dialogue systems by designing a … In the negotiation chatbot setting, agents first chat using natural language and then …

A hybrid retrieval-generation neural conversation model
L Yang, J Hu, M Qiu, C Qu, J Gao, WB Croft… – Proceedings of the 28th …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) communities, leading to a rapidly growing field referred to as Conversational AI [7]. Typical task-oriented dialog systems use a … Session: Long – Question Answering and Dialogue Systems I …

Collaborative dialogue in Minecraft
A Narayan-Chen, P Jayannavar… – Proceedings of the 57th …, 2019 – aclweb.org
… Such situated dialogue poses challenges that go beyond what is required for the slot-value filling tasks performed by stan- dard dialogue systems (eg Kim et al., 2016, 2017; Budzianowski et al., 2018) or chatbots (eg Ritter et al., 2010; Schrading et al., 2015; Lowe et al., 2015 …

Reinforcement learning for personalized dialogue management
F Den Hengst, M Hoogendoorn… – IEEE/WIC/ACM …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… User Automatic Speech Recognition Natural Language Understanding State Tracking Language Generation Policy Policy Policy … 4.1 RL for DM State of the art statistical dialogue systems cast DM as a Partially Ob- servable Markov Decision Problem (POMDP) [25] [33] …

Design and Implementation of an End-to-End Speech Assistant
S Felix – 2019 – dspace.cvut.cz
… 46 4.4 Chatbot Ability … Two main approaches are used to realise such systems: generative methods such as sequence-to-sequence models and retrieval-based methods which selecting responses from a database[16]. Figure 1.2: Dialogue System Overview Dialogue Systems …

Utterance Alignment in Custom Service by Integer Programming
G Bai, S He, K Liu, J Zhao – China National Conference on Chinese …, 2019 – Springer
… which contributes to dialogue analysis and provides valuable data for learning intelligent dialogue systems … are many tasks on dialogue analysis such as dialogue analysis state tracking [20], dialogue … F., Tan, C., Duan, C., Zhou, M.: SuperAgent: a customer service chatbot for e …

What makes a good conversation? how controllable attributes affect human judgments
A See, S Roller, D Kiela, J Weston – arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08654, 2019 – arxiv.org
… 6There are three other minor differences between our evaluation and ConvAI2’s: (1) We fix capitalization and spac- ing before showing the chatbot’s utterances to crowdwork- ers, while ConvAI2 show the raw lowercase tokenized form …

Training Set Expansion Using Word Embeddings for Korean Medical Information Extraction
YM Kim – … Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for …, 2019 – Springer
… Chen, YN, Li, L., Gao, J., Celikyilmaz, A.: End-to-end task-completion neural dialogue systems … Mo, K., Zhang, Y., Li, S., Li, J., Yang, Q.: Personalizing a dialogue system with transfer … D., Wen, TH, Thomson, B., Young, S.: Neural belief tracker: data-driven dialogue state tracking …

Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems and Applications
M Feld, R Ne?selrath – The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor …, 2019 – books.google.com
… implemented (eg, pro-active assistant, question answering system, troubleshooting chatbot, social bot … Dialogue Platforms are underlying frameworks that are used to execute a dialogue system. Dialogue Systems are software agents that allow users to converse with a machine …

Data Science and Conversational Interfaces: A New Revolution in Digital Business
D Griol, Z Callejas – Data Science and Digital Business, 2019 – Springer
… domain identification, intent identification and semantic parsing; dialog management requires state tracking and dialog … Proposal of open-ended dialog system based on topic maps … contender: What have we learned about assessing and tuning industrial spoken dialog systems …

4Software Platforms and Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems
M Feld, R Neßelrath, T Schwartz – The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor … – dl.acm.org
… implemented (eg, pro-active assistant, question answering system, troubleshooting chatbot, social bot … Dialogue Platforms are underlying frameworks that are used to execute a dialogue system. Dialogue Systems are software agents that allow users to converse with a machine …

Recurrent neural models and related problems in natural language processing
S Zhang – 2019 – papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
… how to perform advanced multi-hop reasoning in machine reading comprehension and how to encode person- alities into chitchat dialogue systems … The fourth article tackles the problem of the lack of personality in chatbots … cessing, reading comprehension, dialogue system v …

AMUSED: A Multi-Stream Vector Representation Method for Use in Natural Dialogue
G Kumar, R Joshi, J Singh, P Yenigalla – arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10160, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Conver- sational agents can be broadly classified into two categories: a task oriented chat bot and a chit-chat … DSTC: Dialogue State Tracking Challenge dataset (Henderson et al., 2014) contains conversations for restaurant booking task … Dialogue system proposed by Zhang et al …

Beyond turing: Intelligent agents centered on the user
M Eskenazi, S Mehri, E Razumovskaia… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Liu et al (2016) review dialog system assessment approaches … Curry et al (2017) review assessment techniques for social dialog systems … Real users will not use a chatbot that re- peats the same thing several times, even if it was a good answer the first time it was said …

Software platforms and toolkits for building multimodal systems and applications
M Feld, R Ne?elrath, T Schwartz – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… implemented (eg, pro-active assistant, question answering system, troubleshooting chatbot, social bot … Dialogue Platforms are underlying frameworks that are used to execute a dialogue system. Dialogue Systems are software agents that allow users to converse with a machine …

Knowledge-based Conversational Search
S Vakulenko – arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06859, 2019 – arxiv.org
… 85 6.3 End-to-end Methodology for Designing a Dialogue System . . . . . 86 … Open data chatbot … Discourse structure theories were successfully applied to characterize a dialogue phenomena and inform the design of dialogue systems [171] …

Influence of Time and Risk on Response Acceptability in a Simple Spoken Dialogue System
A Partovi, I Zukerman – Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting …, 2019 – aclweb.org
… We describe a longitudinal user study con- ducted in the context of a Spoken Dialogue System for a household robot … (2017) proposed a dialogue-state tracking framework, and … A combination of deep learning and RL has been used in end-to-end dialogue systems that query a …

Discourse-Level Dialogue Management
B Galitsky – Developing Enterprise Chatbots, 2019 – Springer
… The workhorse of traditional dialog systems is slot-filling (Wang and Lemon 2013) which … 11.3.8 Evaluation: Information Access Efficiency in Chatbots Versus Search Engines … Twelve users (author’s colleagues) asked the chatbot 15–20 questions reflecting their financial …

Deep learning for database mapping and asking clarification questions in dialogue systems
M Korpusik, J Glass – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… re- cently investigated CNNs for dialogue state tracking [23] and candidate response selection [24] … text-based games [5], the same strategy is also ap- plicable to dialogue systems … Other work leveraged RL to construct a personalized dialogue system for a coffee-ordering task …

User intent prediction in information-seeking conversations
C Qu, L Yang, WB Croft, Y Zhang, JR Trippas… – Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… 6 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/dialog-state-tracking-challenge/ 7 https://github.com/prdwb/UserIntentPrediction … These new deep learn- ing techniques have been applied in medical dialog systems [4]. In this paper, we focus on user intent prediction in …

Unsupervised Text Representation Learning with Interactive Language
H Cheng – 2019 – digital.lib.washington.edu
… In order to evaluate the proposed model, two recent dialogue state tracking datasets collected in the … neural-based spoken dialogue systems [36, 37] … Page 24. 13 tion scenario takes place between a human user and a dialogue system powered by conversational …

Multimodal conversational interaction with robots
G Skantze, J Gustafson, J Beskow – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Hal only stares at the interlocutor with his (now emblematic) red eye. For a long time, spoken dialogue systems developed in research labs and employed in the industry also lacked any physical embodiment … Multimodal fusion Situation modelling Dialog state tracking …

Data fusion methods in multimodal human computer dialog
Y Ming-Hao, TAO Jian-Hua – Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware, 2019 – Elsevier
… The dialog state tracking challenge (DSTC) endorsed by SIGdial and supported by Microsoft Research … for the core components in developing end-to-end dialog systems based on … While in multi-modal dialog system, we need combine multimodal channel information together to …

Knowledge graph construction and applications for Web search and beyond
P Wang, H Jiang, J Xu, Q Zhang – Data Intelligence, 2019 – MIT Press
… 600 million entity links. We also introduce three applications of knowledge graph in Sogou Inc.: entity detection and linking, knowledge based question answering and knowledge based dialog system. These applications have …

Dynamic Working Memory for Context-Aware Response Generation
Z Xu, C Sun, Y Long, B Liu, B Wang… – … on Audio, Speech …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… bots to make smooth context-aware conversations with human beings [4], [6]–[8]. In other words, responses from Chat-bots are ex … Customer Service corpus is the OFFICIAL dataset for the End-to-End Conversation Modeling track of the Dialog System Technology Challenges …

Entertaining and opinionated but too controlling: a large-scale user study of an open domain Alexa prize system
KK Bowden, J Wu, W Cui, J Juraska… – Proceedings of the 1st …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… These types of dialogue systems have very different objectives from our goal of creating a casual open-domain social conversational system … Until recently, research evaluating open-domain chatbots has been much smaller scale: one study involved 60 conversations last- ing 4 …

Novel Methods for Efficient Dialogue Policy Learning by Improving Agent-User Interaction
B Peng – 2019 – search.proquest.com
… tana 1 , Apple Siri 2 , Amazon Alexa 3 , Google Assistant 4 , etc The often said dialogue systems can improve user experience … most critical component in a dialogue system. It usually has two roles. The first one is dialogue state tracking to maintain …

Why Build an Assistant in Minecraft?
A Szlam, J Gray, K Srinet, Y Jernite, A Joulin… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems … Learning from dialogue after deployment: Feed yourself, chatbot! arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05415, 2019. Page 11 … The second dialog state tracking challenge …

Observing dialogue in therapy: Categorizing and forecasting behavioral codes
J Cao, M Tanana, ZE Imel, E Poitras, DC Atkins… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… therapy dialogue. 1 Introduction Conversational agents have long been studied in the context of psychotherapy, going back to chat- bots such as ELIZA (Weizenbaum, 1966) and PARRY (Colby, 1975). Research in modeling …

Adaptive and Personalized Systems Based on Semantics
P Lops, C Musto, F Narducci, G Semeraro – Semantics in Adaptive and …, 2019 – Springer
In the introduction of this book, we have thoroughly discussed the importance of adaptive and personalized systems in a broad range of applications. In particular, we have motivated the use of…

Proactive Communication in Human-Agent Teaming
EM van Zoelen – 2019 – dspace.library.uu.nl
… Because of this, the resulting dialogue system can only be used for very narrow domains and … More specifically, many studies on dialogue systems work with partially observable Markov decision processes … Such models combine belief state tracking (as the state the user is in is …

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language …
K Inui, J Jiang, V Ng, X Wan – Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on …, 2019 – aclweb.org
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Asking clarifying questions in open-domain information-seeking conversations
M Aliannejadi, H Zamani, F Crestani… – Proceedings of the 42nd …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… These studies rely on large amount of data from industrial chatbots [31, 46], query logs [37], and QA websites [34, 35, 41]. For instance, Rao and Daumé Session 5A: Conversation and Dialog … Also, Wang et al. [46] studied the task of question generation for an industrial chatbot …

Automatically responding to customers
R Huijzer – pure.tue.nl
… The IBM sales department claims that Autodesk using chatbots cut down their resolution … Conversational agent or dialogue systems aim to communicate with humans using natural lan- guage. Consensus is not clear on whether a chatbot is synonymous to conversational agent …

Cognitive architecture of multimodal multidimensional dialogue management
A Malchanau – 2019 – scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de
… designs based on a reactive interlocutor paradigm and calls for dialog systems that can … has been achieved when applying statistical machine learning methods to dialogue state tracking (Williams et … based Table 1.1: State-of-the-art techniques for task-oriented dialogue system …

Modeling interaction structure for robot imitation learning of human social behavior
M Doering, DF Glas, H Ishiguro – IEEE Transactions on Human …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Human–robot interaction, imitation learning, in- teraction structure, spoken dialog system, unsupervised learning … Frame-based dialog systems keep track of the dialog state by tracking a set … Many approaches to state tracking, including rule-based systems, graphical models, and …

Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Y Yang – 2019 – academia.edu
… In this thesis we focus on the dialogue management task (dialogue state tracking and dialogue … for persuasive dialogues2 are a kind of task-oriented dialogue systems that regulate … Following the notions in Prakken’s work [32], a formal dialogue system for persuasive dialogues …

The artificial facilitator: guiding participants in developing causal maps using voice-activated personal assistant
S Reddy, T Reddy – 2019 – knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca
… significant differences across systems. Unlike chat-bots, smart conversa- tional agents are not limited to performing simple conversations … design is so common that the system may be presented as a slot-based dialogue system [55]. 1.2.6 Why Google Natural Language API …

Dense Semantic Matching Network for Multi-turn Conversation
Y Li, J Yu, Z Wang – 2019 IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Two are better than one: An ensemble of retrieval-and generation-based dialog systems,” arXiv preprint … W. Lei, Z. Ren, H. Chen, S. Liang, Y. Zhao, “Explicit State Tracking with Semi … corpus: A large dataset for research in unstructured multi-turn dialogue systems,” arXiv preprint …

Recommendation in Dialogue Systems
Y Sun – 2019 – escholarship.org
… These chatbots are implemented on different platforms, such as mobiles, home devices, and webpages. Dialogue systems are becoming indispensable tools in our life. First, the di … place an order. Second, the dialogue system is an important entrance of online …

Learning to Converse With Latent Actions
T Zhao – 2019 – lti.cs.cmu.edu
… 2.1 Dialog system pipeline for task-oriented dialog systems . . . . . 8 … These unique features make latent action E2E dialog system powerful and practical for creating dialog systems in a variety of usage and domains. 1.2 Thesis Statement …