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20182026
most citedA Challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

8 citations · 18 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

SEARCH-R: Structured Entity-Aware Retrieval with Chain-of-Reasoning Navigator for Multi-hop Question Answering

Yuqing Fu, Yimin Deng, Wanyu Wang +9

Multi-hop Question Answering (MHQA) aims to answer questions that require multi-step reasoning. It presents two key challenges: generating correct reasoning paths in response to th…

cs.CL2023

Prompt Pool based Class-Incremental Continual Learning for Dialog State Tracking

Hong Liu, Yucheng Cai, Yuan Zhou +3

Continual learning is crucial for dialog state tracking (DST) in dialog systems, since requirements from users for new functionalities are often encountered. However, most of exist…

cs.CL2023

Exploring Energy-based Language Models with Different Architectures and Training Methods for Speech Recognition

Hong Liu, Zhaobiao Lv, Zhijian Ou +2

Energy-based language models (ELMs) parameterize an unnormalized distribution for natural sentences and are radically different from popular autoregressive language models (ALMs).…

cs.CL2023

Knowledge-Retrieval Task-Oriented Dialog Systems with Semi-Supervision

Yucheng Cai, Hong Liu, Zhijian Ou +2

Most existing task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems track dialog states in terms of slots and values and use them to query a database to get relevant knowledge to generate responses.…

cs.CL2022

A Generative User Simulator with GPT-based Architecture and Goal State Tracking for Reinforced Multi-Domain Dialog Systems

Hong Liu, Yucheng Cai, Zhijian Ou +2

Building user simulators (USs) for reinforcement learning (RL) of task-oriented dialog systems (DSs) has gained more and more attention, which, however, still faces several fundame…

cs.CL2022

Information Extraction and Human-Robot Dialogue towards Real-life Tasks: A Baseline Study with the MobileCS Dataset

Hong Liu, Hao Peng, Zhijian Ou +3

Recently, there have merged a class of task-oriented dialogue (TOD) datasets collected through Wizard-of-Oz simulated games. However, the Wizard-of-Oz data are in fact simulated da…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Advancing Semi-Supervised Task Oriented Dialog Systems by JSA Learning of Discrete Latent Variable Models

Yucheng Cai, Hong Liu, Zhijian Ou +2

Developing semi-supervised task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems by leveraging unlabeled dialog data has attracted increasing interests. For semi-supervised learning of latent state T…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

A Challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Zhijian Ou, Junlan Feng, Juanzi Li +5

A challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems, Co-located with EMNLP2022 SereTOD Workshop.

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Building Markovian Generative Architectures over Pretrained LM Backbones for Efficient Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Hong Liu, Yucheng Cai, Zhijian Ou +2

Recently, Transformer based pretrained language models (PLMs), such as GPT2 and T5, have been leveraged to build generative task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems. A drawback of existi…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Variational Latent-State GPT for Semi-Supervised Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Hong Liu, Yucheng Cai, Zhenru Lin +3

Recently, two approaches, fine-tuning large pre-trained language models and variational training, have attracted significant interests, separately, for semi-supervised end-to-end t…

cs.CL2018★ 2 cited

Elastic CRFs for Open-ontology Slot Filling

Yinpei Dai, Yichi Zhang, Hong Liu +3

Slot filling is a crucial component in task-oriented dialog systems that is used to parse (user) utterances into semantic concepts called slots. An ontology is defined by the colle…