Energy-Based Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking

Anh Duong Trinh, Robert Ross, John Kelleher


Abstract
The uncertainties of language and the complexity of dialogue contexts make accurate dialogue state tracking one of the more challenging aspects of dialogue processing. To improve state tracking quality, we argue that relationships between different aspects of dialogue state must be taken into account as they can often guide a more accurate interpretation process. To this end, we present an energy-based approach to dialogue state tracking as a structured classification task. The novelty of our approach lies in the use of an energy network on top of a deep learning architecture to explore more signal correlations between network variables including input features and output labels. We demonstrate that the energy-based approach improves the performance of a deep learning dialogue state tracker towards state-of-the-art results without the need for many of the other steps required by current state-of-the-art methods.
Anthology ID:
W19-4109
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI
Month:
August
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Yun-Nung Chen, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Anuj Kumar, Mike Lewis, Thang-Minh Luong, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
77–86
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-4109
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-4109
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Cite (ACL):
Anh Duong Trinh, Robert Ross, and John Kelleher. 2019. Energy-Based Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, pages 77–86, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Energy-Based Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking (Trinh et al., ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-4109.pdf
Data
Dialogue State Tracking Challenge