Exploiting More Associations Between Slots for Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking

Dialog State Tracking (DST) aims to extract the current state from the conversation and plays an important role in dialog systems. Existing methods usually predict the value of each slot independently and do not consider the correlations among slots, which will exacerbate the data sparsity problem b...

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Main Authors: Hui Bai, Yan Yang, Jie Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsinghua University Press 2022-03-01
Series:Big Data Mining and Analytics
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Online Access:https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/BDMA.2021.9020013
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Summary:Dialog State Tracking (DST) aims to extract the current state from the conversation and plays an important role in dialog systems. Existing methods usually predict the value of each slot independently and do not consider the correlations among slots, which will exacerbate the data sparsity problem because of the increased number of candidate values. In this paper, we propose a multi-domain DST model that integrates slot-relevant information. In particular, certain connections may exist among slots in different domains, and their corresponding values can be obtained through explicit or implicit reasoning. Therefore, we use the graph adjacency matrix to determine the correlation between slots, so that the slots can incorporate more slot-value transformer information. Experimental results show that our approach has performed well on the Multi-domain Wizard-Of-Oz (MultiWOZ) 2.0 and MultiWOZ2.1 datasets, demonstrating the effectiveness and necessity of incorporating slot-relevant information.
ISSN:2096-0654