<p>The objective of dialogue state tracking (DST) is to dynamically track information within dialogue states by populating predefined state slots, which enhances the comprehension capabilities of task-oriented dialogue systems in processing user requests. Recently, there has been a growing popularity in using graph neural networks to model the relationships between slots and slots as well as between dialogue and slots. However, these models overlook the relationships between words and phrases in the current turn dialogue and dialogue history. Specific syntactic dependencies (e.g., the object of a preposition) and constituents (e.g., noun phrases) have a higher probability of being the slot values that need to be retrieved at current moment. Neglecting these syntactic dependency and constituent information may cause the loss of potential candidate slot values, thereby limiting the overall performance of DST models. To address this issue, we propose a Hierarchical Fine-grained State Aware Graph Attention Network for Dialogue State Tracking (HFSG-DST). HFSG-DST exploits the syntactic dependency and constituent tree information, such as phrase segmentation and hierarchical structure in dialogue utterances, to construct a relational graph between entities. It then employs a hierarchical graph attention network to facilitate the extraction of fine-grained candidate dialogue state information. Additionally, HFSG-DST designs a Schema-enhanced Dialogue History Selector to select the most relevant turn of dialogue history for current turn and incorporates schema description information for dialogue state tracking. Consequently, HFSG-DST is capable of constructing the dependency tree and constituent tree on noise-free utterances. Experimental results on two public benchmark datasets demonstrate that HFSG-DST outperforms other state-of-the-art models.</p>

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Hierarchical fine-grained state-aware graph attention network for dialogue state tracking

  • Hongmiao Liao,
  • Yuzhong Chen,
  • Deming Chen,
  • Junjie Xu,
  • Jiayuan Zhong,
  • Chen Dong

摘要

The objective of dialogue state tracking (DST) is to dynamically track information within dialogue states by populating predefined state slots, which enhances the comprehension capabilities of task-oriented dialogue systems in processing user requests. Recently, there has been a growing popularity in using graph neural networks to model the relationships between slots and slots as well as between dialogue and slots. However, these models overlook the relationships between words and phrases in the current turn dialogue and dialogue history. Specific syntactic dependencies (e.g., the object of a preposition) and constituents (e.g., noun phrases) have a higher probability of being the slot values that need to be retrieved at current moment. Neglecting these syntactic dependency and constituent information may cause the loss of potential candidate slot values, thereby limiting the overall performance of DST models. To address this issue, we propose a Hierarchical Fine-grained State Aware Graph Attention Network for Dialogue State Tracking (HFSG-DST). HFSG-DST exploits the syntactic dependency and constituent tree information, such as phrase segmentation and hierarchical structure in dialogue utterances, to construct a relational graph between entities. It then employs a hierarchical graph attention network to facilitate the extraction of fine-grained candidate dialogue state information. Additionally, HFSG-DST designs a Schema-enhanced Dialogue History Selector to select the most relevant turn of dialogue history for current turn and incorporates schema description information for dialogue state tracking. Consequently, HFSG-DST is capable of constructing the dependency tree and constituent tree on noise-free utterances. Experimental results on two public benchmark datasets demonstrate that HFSG-DST outperforms other state-of-the-art models.