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SAS: Dialogue state tracking via slot attention and slot information sharing

  • Jiaying Hu
  • , Yan Yang*
  • , Chengcai Chen
  • , Liang He
  • , Zhou Yu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • East China Normal University
  • Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing
  • Ltd
  • University of California at Davis

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Dialogue state tracker is responsible for inferring user intentions through dialogue history. Previous methods have difficulties in handling dialogues with long interaction context, due to the excessive information. We propose a Dialogue State Tracker with Slot Attention and Slot Information Sharing (SAS) to reduce redundant information's interference and improve long dialogue context tracking. Specially, we first apply a Slot Attention to learn a set of slot-specific features from the original dialogue and then integrate them using a Slot Information Sharing. The sharing improve the models ability to deduce value from related slots. Our model yields a significantly improved performance compared to previous state-of-the-art models on the MultiWOZ dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2020 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages6366-6375
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148255
StatePublished - 2020
Event58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 5 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/07/20 → 10/07/20

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