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Neural Dialogue State Tracking with Temporally Expressive Networks

16 Sep 2020Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020arXiv:2009.07615archive 2025-07-28

Junfan Chen, Richong Zhang, Yongyi Mao, Jie Xu

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an important part of a spoken dialogue system. Existing DST models either ignore temporal feature dependencies across dialogue turns or fail to explicitly model temporal state dependencies in a dialogue. In this work, we propose Temporally Expressive Networks (TEN) to jointly model the two types of temporal dependencies in DST. The TEN model utilizes the power of recurrent networks and probabilistic graphical models. Evaluating on standard datasets, TEN is demonstrated to be effective in improving the accuracy of turn-level-state prediction and the state aggregation.

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