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
Mars: Modeling Context & State Representations with Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog
Haipeng Sun, Junwei Bao, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He
Semi-Supervised Knowledge-Grounded Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
Weihao Zeng, Keqing He, Zechen Wang, Dayuan Fu, Guanting Dong, Ruotong Geng, Pei Wang, Jingang Wang, Chaobo Sun, Wei Wu, Weiran Xu