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20202025
most citedTripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking

16 citations · 17 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2025

Post-Training Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning from Self-Feedback

Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks. We present Reinforcement Learning from…

cs.CL2025

Emotionally Intelligent Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Architecture, Representation, and Optimisation

Shutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis +5

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are designed to help users achieve specific goals through natural language interaction. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) h…

cs.LG2021

What Does The User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation

Christian Geishauser, Songbo Hu, Hsien-chin Lin +5

The dialogue management component of a task-oriented dialogue system is typically optimised via reinforcement learning (RL). Optimisation via RL is highly susceptible to sample ine…

cs.CL2021

Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance

Carel van Niekerk, Andrey Malinin, Christian Geishauser +5

The ability to identify and resolve uncertainty is crucial for the robustness of a dialogue system. Indeed, this has been confirmed empirically on systems that utilise Bayesian app…

cs.CL2021

Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu +5

Dialogue policy optimisation via reinforcement learning requires a large number of training interactions, which makes learning with real users time consuming and expensive. Many se…

cs.CL2020

Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models

Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis +4

Dialog state tracking (DST) suffers from severe data sparsity. While many natural language processing (NLP) tasks benefit from transfer learning and multi-task learning, in dialog…