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PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit
2017
Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations
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To alleviate this, we present PyDial, an opensource end-to-end statistical spoken dialogue system toolkit which provides implementations of statistical approaches for all dialogue system modules. ...
Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems have been around for many years. ...
Hence, to stimulate research and make it easy for people to get involved in statistical spoken dialogue systems, we present PyDial, a multi-domain statistical spoken dialogue system toolkit. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/p17-4013
dblp:conf/acl/UltesRSVKCBMWGY17
fatcat:ycmpcpszavcebhzsg6a6i2av54
Using a Deep Learning Dialogue Research Toolkit in a Multilingual Multidomain Practical Application
2018
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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The toolkit (PyDial) supports research on deep reinforcement learning for multi-domain dialogues. ...
The application (CityTalk) is a spoken dialogue system for robots that give information to tourists about local hotels and restaurants. ...
Acknowledgments The PyDial toolkit was developed by Cambridge University Engineering Department. We thank the Dialogue Systems Group for making it available as open source. ...
doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/869
dblp:conf/ijcai/Wilcock18
fatcat:56ahheov2ffarhml5lvz62ohvq
A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management
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2018
arXiv
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Both the environments and policy models are implemented using the publicly available PyDial toolkit and released on-line, in order to establish a testbed framework for further experiments and to facilitate ...
To avoid the significant effort needed to hand-craft the required dialogue flow, the Dialogue Management (DM) module can be cast as a continuous Markov Decision Process (MDP) and trained through Reinforcement ...
PyDial PyDial [39] is an open-source statistical spoken dialogue system toolkit which provides domainindependent implementations of all the dialogue system modules shown in Figure 1 , as well as simulated ...
arXiv:1711.11023v2
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Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
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2017
arXiv
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We apply our proposed method to find optimized component weights for six domains and compare them to a default baseline. ...
To render this search feasible, we use multi-objective reinforcement learning to significantly reduce the number of training dialogues required. ...
The corresponding source code is included in the PyDial toolkit which can be found on www.pydial.org. ...
arXiv:1707.06299v1
fatcat:febpopz2zvhudc3jtdobt3hqgm
Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
2017
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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We apply our proposed method to find optimized component weights for six domains and compare them to a default baseline. ...
To render this search feasible, we use multi-objective reinforcement learning to significantly reduce the number of training dialogues required. ...
The corresponding source code is included in the PyDial toolkit which can be found on www.pydial.org. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/w17-5509
dblp:conf/sigdial/UltesBCMRSWGY17
fatcat:fwkbkq5bqrcifaz24gzs3juxyi
DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development
2017
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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At present six systems are linked to a central portal that directs the user to the applicable system and suggests systems that the user may be interested in. ...
User data has started to flow into the system. ...
The current database has just over 100 restaurants and is implemented using the multi-domain statistical dialogue system toolkit PyDial . ...
doi:10.18653/v1/w17-5521
dblp:conf/sigdial/LeeZDCLPTURGYE17
fatcat:tpxaxlwuyfcflp4uzh6z63li2a
PyOpenDial: A Python-based Domain-Independent Toolkit for Developing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules
2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
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We present PyOpenDial, a Python-based domain-independent, open-source toolkit for spoken dialogue systems. ...
To this end, we re-implemented OpenDial in Python and extended the toolkit with a number of novel functionalities for neural dialogue state tracking and action planning. ...
We showed the aptitude of PyOpenDial by presenting how the negotiation dialogue domain can be implemented, seamlessly integrating with deep learning model trained for natural language generation. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/d19-3032
dblp:conf/emnlp/JangLPLLK19
fatcat:ntq7m6ugnzdutkal6gnrzzzxpy
Structured Hierarchical Dialogue Policy with Graph Neural Networks
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2020
arXiv
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A novel ComNet is proposed to model the structure of a hierarchical agent. The performance of ComNet is tested on composited tasks of the PyDial benchmark. ...
Dialogue policy training for composite tasks, such as restaurant reservation in multiple places, is a practically important and challenging problem. ...
PyDial toolkit , which supports multi-domain dialogue simulation with error models, has laid a good foundation for our composite task environment building. ...
arXiv:2009.10355v1
fatcat:pb44tnh2xbfrbgroyedth5rfzy
Plato Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Research Platform
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2020
arXiv
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As the field of Spoken Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI grows, so does the need for tools and environments that abstract away implementation details in order to expedite the development process, ...
components, single- or multi-party interactions, and offline or online training of any conversational agent component. ...
The following are some state-of-the-art and widely adopted platforms: • PyDial [11] is a toolkit for statistical modeling of multi-domain Dialogue Systems that supports Reinforcement Learning (RL) and ...
arXiv:2001.06463v1
fatcat:m6a2zcvjsfb2dadq4ipfdrucri
Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
2018
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single-or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g., relations. ...
We demonstrate in a prototype implementation benefits of relation modelling on the dialogue level and show that a trained policy using these relations outperforms the multi-domain baseline. ...
Acknowledgments This research was partly funded by the EPSRC grant EP/M018946/1 Open Domain Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/w18-5032
dblp:conf/sigdial/UltesBCRTWYG18
fatcat:unrbxnm54rcyzad6gjn7i6gyie
Domain Complexity and Policy Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
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2018
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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In the present paper, we conduct a comparative evaluation of a multitude of information-seeking domains, using two well-known but fundamentally different algorithms for policy learning: GP-SARSA and DQN ...
Our goal is to gain an understanding of how the nature of such domains influences performance. ...
We trained the above algorithms with the PyDial toolkit [13] , using the following reward functions: for the GPS, we assign a turn penalty of -1 for each turn and a reward of +20 at the end of each successful ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92108-2_8
fatcat:kpgqwlsum5hulibunx3ioputri
Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
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2019
arXiv
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Statistical spoken dialogue systems usually rely on a single- or multi-domain dialogue model that is restricted in its capabilities of modelling complex dialogue structures, e.g., relations. ...
We demonstrate in a prototype implementation benefits of relation modelling on the dialogue level and show that a trained policy using these relations outperforms the multi-domain baseline. ...
Acknowledgments This research was partly funded by the EPSRC grant EP/M018946/1 Open Domain Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems. ...
arXiv:1901.01466v1
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LD-SDS: Towards an Expressive Spoken Dialogue System based on Linked-Data
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2017
arXiv
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We envision a dialogue system named LD-SDS that will support advanced, expressive, and engaging user requests, over multiple, complex, rich, and open-domain data sources that will leverage the wealth of ...
domains. ...
rules; Olympus is a complete framework for implementing spoken dialogue systems (SDS) [4] ; PyDial [30] is a toolkit for developing and training statistical multi-domain SDS based on the slot filling ...
arXiv:1710.02973v1
fatcat:4wwpub2bkjatbhwh7kjafhyp5i
Uncertainty Estimates for Efficient Neural Network-based Dialogue Policy Optimisation
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2017
arXiv
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In statistical dialogue management, the dialogue manager learns a policy that maps a belief state to an action for the system to perform. ...
This paper examines approaches to extract uncertainty estimates from deep Q-networks (DQN) in the context of dialogue management. ...
Evaluation and results Experiments are conducted using the Cambridge restaurant domain from the PyDial toolkit [22] with a goal-driven user simulator on the semantic level [19] . ...
arXiv:1711.11486v1
fatcat:4dzdxbz4ufaxvcq7whgbu3bzsa
Survey on Evaluation Methods for Dialogue Systems
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2019
arXiv
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2020 accepted arXiv:1905.04071v2 fatcat:ddvauhxccjgkxfmkt7xthwbcei
In this paper we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue systems. Evaluation is a crucial part during the development process. ...
For this, we differentiate between the various classes of dialogue systems (task-oriented dialogue systems, conversational dialogue systems, and question-answering dialogue systems). ...
This toolkit not only provides domain-independent implementations of different modules in a dialogue system, but also simulates users (see Section 3.4.2). ...
arXiv:1905.04071v1
fatcat:kyeepr7zpzgivhqdkjzfpskv3i
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