Paper ID | HLT-3.3 | ||
Paper Title | ACTION STATE UPDATE APPROACH TO DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT | ||
Authors | Svetlana Stoyanchev, Simon Keizer, Rama Doddipatla, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory, United Kingdom | ||
Session | HLT-3: Dialogue Systems 1: General Topics | ||
Location | Gather.Town | ||
Session Time: | Tuesday, 08 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation Time: | Tuesday, 08 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Human Language Technology: [HLT-DIAL] Discourse and Dialog | ||
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Abstract | Utterance interpretation is one of the main functions of a dialogue manager, which is the key component of a dialogue system. We propose the action state update approach (ASU) for utterance interpretation, featuring a statistically trained binary classifier used to detect dialogue state update actions in the text of a user utterance. Our goal is to interpret referring expressions in user input without a domain-specific natural language understanding component. For training the model, we use active learning to automatically select simulated training examples. With both user-simulated and interactive human evaluations, we show that the ASU approach successfully interprets user utterances in a dialogue system, including those with referring expressions. |