Title
Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies.
Abstract
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and utterances are labeled at the subdialog level. This article describes a novel dialog state tracking method designed to work robustly under these conditions, using elaborate string matching, coreference resolution tailored for dialogs and a few other improvements. The method can correctly identify many values that are not explicitly present in the utterance. On the final evaluation, our method came in first among 7 competing teams and 24 entries. The F1-score achieved by our method was 9 and 7 percentage points higher than that of the runner-up for the utterance-level evaluation and for the subdialog-level evaluation, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-981-10-2585-3_39
IWSDS
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1605.02130
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franck Dernoncourt114935.39
Ji Young Lee214014.99
Trung H. Bui38621.88
Hung Hai Bui41188112.37