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Microsoft Dialogue Challenge: Building End-to-End Task-Completion Dialogue Systems

arXiv 1807.11125 ↗First posted 29 Jul 2018cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 46

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Abstract (arXiv)

This proposal introduces a Dialogue Challenge for building end-to-end task-completion dialogue systems, with the goal of encouraging the dialogue research community to collaborate and benchmark on standard datasets and unified experimental environment. In this special session, we will release human-annotated conversational data in three domains (movie-ticket booking, restaurant reservation, and taxi booking), as well as an experiment platform with built-in simulators in each domain, for training and evaluation purposes. The final submitted systems will be evaluated both in simulated setting and by human judges.

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  1. 2022MASSIVE: A 1M-Example Multilingual Natural Language Understanding Dataset with 51 Typologically-Diverse Languagescited by 142
  2. 2021Multi-Task Pre-Training for Plug-and-Play Task-Oriented Dialogue Systemcited by 139
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  4. 2021GALAXY: A Generative Pre-trained Model for Task-Oriented Dialog with Semi-Supervised Learning and Explicit Policy Injectioncited by 102
  5. 2022InstructDial: Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuningcited by 39
  6. 2022D4: a Chinese Dialogue Dataset for Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chatcited by 37
  7. 2022SPACE-3: Unified Dialog Model Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understanding and Generationcited by 34
  8. 2024Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Callingcited by 34
  9. 2022SPACE-2: Tree-Structured Semi-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understandingcited by 28
  10. 2023DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AIcited by 21
  11. 2021DialogueCSE: Dialogue-based Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddingscited by 19
  12. 2022Learning Dialogue Representations from Consecutive Utterancescited by 17
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  2. 2022MVP: Multi-task Supervised Pre-training for Natural Language Generationcited by 16
  3. 2022Anti-Overestimation Dialogue Policy Learning for Task-Completion Dialogue Systemcited by 8
  4. 2024Computational Politeness in Natural Language Processing: A Surveycited by 8
  5. 2024Dialog2Flow: Pre-training Soft-Contrastive Action-Driven Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Dialog Flow Extractioncited by 8
  6. 2021End-to-End Conversational Search for Online Shopping with Utterance Transfercited by 7
  7. 2023Multi-Stage Pre-training Enhanced by ChatGPT for Multi-Scenario Multi-Domain Dialogue Summarizationcited by 7
  8. 2021Teaching Models new APIs: Domain-Agnostic Simulators for Task Oriented Dialoguecited by 6
  9. 2023DiactTOD: Learning Generalizable Latent Dialogue Acts for Controllable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systemscited by 6
  10. 2021A Context-Aware Hierarchical BERT Fusion Network for Multi-turn Dialog Act Detectioncited by 5
  11. 2021Different Strokes for Different Folks: Investigating Appropriate Further Pre-training Approaches for Diverse Dialogue Taskscited by 4
  12. 2023Zero-Shot Slot and Intent Detection in Low-Resource Languagescited by 4
  13. 2023OmniDialog: An Omnipotent Pre-training Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systemcited by 4
  14. 2024DivTOD: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Diversifying Task-Oriented Dialogue Representationscited by 4
  15. 2024Domain Adaptation in Intent Classification Systems: A Reviewcited by 4
  16. 2022DFM: Dialogue Foundation Model for Universal Large-Scale Dialogue-Oriented Task Learningcited by 3
  17. 2022Advancing Semi-Supervised Task Oriented Dialog Systems by JSA Learning of Discrete Latent Variable Modelscited by 3
  18. 2023UniPCM: Universal Pre-trained Conversation Model with Task-aware Automatic Promptcited by 3
  19. 2023Promptor: A Conversational and Autonomous Prompt Generation Agent for Intelligent Text Entry Techniquescited by 3
  20. 2023CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogscited by 3
  21. 2021How to Evaluate Your Dialogue Models: A Review of Approachescited by 2
  22. 2024Scheduled Curiosity-Deep Dyna-Q: Efficient Exploration for Dialog Policy Learningcited by 2
  23. 2025An Efficient Task-Oriented Dialogue Policy: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Injected by Elite Individualscited by 2
  24. 2022Imagination is All You Need! Curved Contrastive Learning for Abstract Sequence Modeling Utilized on Long Short-Term Dialogue Planningcited by 1
  25. 2023Rescue Conversations from Dead-ends: Efficient Exploration for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Optimizationcited by 1
  26. 2023FutureTOD: Teaching Future Knowledge to Pre-trained Language Model for Task-Oriented Dialoguecited by 1
  27. 2023A Task-oriented Dialog Model with Task-progressive and Policy-aware Pre-trainingcited by 1
  28. 2024Triple-Encoders: Representations That Fire Together, Wire Togethercited by 1
  29. 2022Knowledge Augmented BERT Mutual Network in Multi-turn Spoken Dialoguescited by 0
  30. 2023AUTODIAL: Efficient Asynchronous Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelcited by 0
  31. 2023Step by Step to Fairness: Attributing Societal Bias in Task-oriented Dialogue Systemscited by 0
  32. 2024BootTOD: Bootstrap Task-oriented Dialogue Representations by Aligning Diverse Responsescited by 0
  33. 2025Efficient Intent-Based Filtering for Multi-Party Conversations Using Knowledge Distillation from LLMscited by 0
  34. 2025DyBBT: Dynamic Balance via Bandit-inspired Targeting for Dialog Policy with Cognitive Dual-Systemscited by 0