# A Challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02657 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02657/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Jul 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [A Simple Language Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.00796/) (2020)
- [A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.04562/) (2016)
- [Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.03777/) (2016)
- [Task-Oriented Dialog Systems that Consider Multiple Appropriate Responses under the Same Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.10484/) (2019)
- [Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.03533/) (2020)
- [A Probabilistic End-To-End Task-Oriented Dialog Model with Latent Belief States towards Semi-Supervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.08115/) (2020)
- [How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.01388/) (2019)
- [Neural User Simulation for Corpus-based Policy Optimisation for Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06966/) (2018)
- [An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network Model with Belief Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialog](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.05956/) (2017)
- [Variational Latent-State GPT for Semi-Supervised Task-Oriented Dialog Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04314/) (2021)
- [Flexibly-Structured Model for Task-Oriented Dialogues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.02402/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Semi-Supervised Knowledge-Grounded Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08873/) (2022)
- [Knowledge-Retrieval Task-Oriented Dialog Systems with Semi-Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13199/) (2023)
- [Information Extraction and Human-Robot Dialogue towards Real-life Tasks: A Baseline Study with the MobileCS Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.13464/) (2022)
- [Discovering Customer-Service Dialog System with Semi-Supervised Learning and Coarse-to-Fine Intent Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.12363/) (2022)
- [The 2nd FutureDial Challenge: Dialog Systems with Retrieval Augmented Generation (FutureDial-RAG)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.13084/) (2024)
- [Entriever: Energy-based Retriever for Knowledge-Grounded Dialog Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.00585/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

A challenge on Semi-Supervised and Reinforced Task-Oriented Dialog Systems, Co-located with EMNLP2022 SereTOD Workshop.