Task Oriented
Task-oriented dialogue systems aim to build efficient and natural-language interfaces for completing specific user tasks, focusing on achieving goals rather than open-ended conversation. Current research emphasizes improving these systems through advanced neural architectures like deep learning models (including transformers and graph neural networks) and reinforcement learning, often incorporating large language models for enhanced natural language understanding and generation. This field is significant because it underpins the development of practical applications like virtual assistants and intelligent chatbots, driving improvements in human-computer interaction and impacting various sectors.
Papers
MULTI3NLU++: A Multilingual, Multi-Intent, Multi-Domain Dataset for Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Nikita Moghe, Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Liane Guillou, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen, Alexandra Birch
Enhancing Task Bot Engagement with Synthesized Open-Domain Dialog
Miaoran Li, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, Zhu Zhang
Dialog2API: Task-Oriented Dialogue with API Description and Example Programs
Raphael Shu, Elman Mansimov, Tamer Alkhouli, Nikolaos Pappas, Salvatore Romeo, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang, Dan Roth