Recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems

Z Zhang, R Takanobu, Q Zhu, ML Huang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language
processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both …

A survey on recent advances and challenges in reinforcement learning methods for task-oriented dialogue policy learning

WC Kwan, HR Wang, HM Wang, KF Wong - Machine Intelligence …, 2023 - Springer
Dialogue policy learning (DPL) is a key component in a task-oriented dialogue (TOD)
system. Its goal is to decide the next action of the dialogue system, given the dialogue state …

A review of dialogue systems: current trends and future directions

A Algherairy, M Ahmed - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Advances in dialogue systems have recently been made in various fields as an easy to use
and inexpensive option to support or replace workers. However, develo** dialogue …

Overview of the ninth dialog system technology challenge: Dstc9

C Gunasekara, S Kim, LF D'haro… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9). This
edition of the DSTC focuses on applying end-to-end dialog technologies for four distinct …

" Do you follow me?": A Survey of Recent Approaches in Dialogue State Tracking

L Jacqmin, LM Rojas-Barahona, B Favre - ar** a successful dialogue policy for a multi-domain task-oriented dialogue (MDTD)
system is a challenging task. Basically, a desirable dialogue policy acts as the decision …

Grounding as a collaborative process

L Benotti, PR Blackburn - Proceedings of the 16th Conference of …, 2021 - forskning.ruc.dk
Collaborative grounding is a fundamental aspect of human-human dialog which allows
people to negotiate meaning. In this paper we argue that it is missing from current deep …