Candidate Attended Dialogue State Tracking Using BERT
Quick Answer
This paper introduces a scalable framework for multi-domain dialogue state tracking using BERT, enabling zero-shot generalization to new domains without additional training.
Quick Take
Evaluated on the schema-based dialogue (SGD) dataset, the model shows significant performance improvements over previous baselines, addressing the scalability needs of dialogue systems like Google Assistant and Siri.
Key Points
- Proposes a novel framework for multi-domain dialogue state tracking using BERT.
- Achieves zero-shot generalization, adapting quickly to new domains.
- Evaluated on the SGD dataset, showing significant performance improvements.
- Addresses scalability challenges for popular dialogue systems like Alexa.
- Presented at the DSTC8 workshop during AAAI-20.
Paper Resources
Source Excerpt
Dialogue state tracking (DST) is one of the core components in task-oriented dialogue systems. At each turn in a conversation, DST estimates the user belief or dialogue state, which is used as input for downstream modules to predict system actions and generate responses. The increasingly popular dialogue system applications like Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa need to support a large number of services and APIs, resulting in growing attention to the scalability of such systems. Especially for s
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