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External Slot Relationship Memory for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking
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: Received: 15 July 2023 / Approved: 17 July 2023 / Online: 17 July 2023 (11:53:41 CEST)
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Xing, X.; Yang, C.; Lin, D.; Teng, D.; Chen, P.; Zhang, X. External Slot Relationship Memory for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 8943. Xing, X.; Yang, C.; Lin, D.; Teng, D.; Chen, P.; Zhang, X. External Slot Relationship Memory for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 8943.
Abstract
Dialogue State Tracking is an essential component in multi-domain dialogue systems, aiming to accurately determine the current dialogue state based on the dialogue history. Existing research has addressed the issue of multiple mappings in dialogues by employing slot self-attention as a data-driven approach. However, learning the relationships between slots from a single sample has limitations and introduces noise. In this paper, we propose an External Slot Relation Memory-based Dialogue State Tracking model (ER-DST). By utilizing an external memory storage, we learn the relationships between slots as a dictionary of multi-domain slot relations. Additionally, we employ a small filter to discard slot information irrelevant to the current dialogue state. Experimental results on the MultiWOZ2.0 and MultiWOZ2.1 benchmarks demonstrate significant improvements while reducing the time complexity to O(n).
Keywords
task-oriented dialogue system; dialogue state tracking; attention mechanism; pre-trained language model
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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