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    <abstract>Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management. Common practice has been to treat it as a problem of classifying dialogue content into a set of pre-defined slot-value pairs, or generating values for different slots given the dialogue history. Both have limitations on considering dependencies that occur on dialogues, and are lacking of reasoning capabilities. This paper proposes to track dialogue states gradually with reasoning over dialogue turns with the help of the back-end data. Empirical results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of joint belief accuracy for MultiWOZ 2.1, a large-scale human–human dialogue dataset across multiple domains.</abstract>
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%0 Journal Article
%T Dialogue State Tracking with Incremental Reasoning
%A Liao, Lizi
%A Long, Le Hong
%A Ma, Yunshan
%A Lei, Wenqiang
%A Chua, Tat-Seng
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2021
%V 9
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F liao-etal-2021-dialogue
%X Tracking dialogue states to better interpret user goals and feed downstream policy learning is a bottleneck in dialogue management. Common practice has been to treat it as a problem of classifying dialogue content into a set of pre-defined slot-value pairs, or generating values for different slots given the dialogue history. Both have limitations on considering dependencies that occur on dialogues, and are lacking of reasoning capabilities. This paper proposes to track dialogue states gradually with reasoning over dialogue turns with the help of the back-end data. Empirical results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of joint belief accuracy for MultiWOZ 2.1, a large-scale human–human dialogue dataset across multiple domains.
%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00384
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.34/
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00384
%P 557-569

Markdown (Informal)

[Dialogue State Tracking with Incremental Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.34/) (Liao et al., TACL 2021)

• Dialogue State Tracking with Incremental Reasoning (Liao et al., TACL 2021)

ACL

• Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Yunshan Ma, Wenqiang Lei, and Tat-Seng Chua. 2021. Dialogue State Tracking with Incremental Reasoning. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:557–569.