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Chinnadhurai Sankar

5 accepted papers

2023

Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Example-Guided Question Answering

EMNLP 2023long main

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services. Motivated by the insight that dialogue state tracking (DST), a crucial component of dialogue sys…

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2022

Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

NAACL 2022long

As task-oriented dialog systems are becoming increasingly popular in our lives, more realistic tasks have been proposed and explored. However, new practical challenges arise. For instance, current dialog systems cannot effectively handle multiplesearch results when querying a database, due to the la…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2022

KETOD: Knowledge-Enriched Task-Oriented Dialogue

NAACL 2022findings

Existing studies in dialogue system research mostly treat task-oriented dialogue and chit-chat as separate domains. Towards building a human-like assistant that can converse naturally and seamlessly with users, it is important to build a dialogue system that conducts both types of conversations effe…

2022

Know Thy Strengths: Comprehensive Dialogue State Tracking Diagnostics

EMNLP 2022finding

Recent works that revealed the vulnerability of dialogue state tracking (DST) models to distributional shifts have made holistic comparisons on robustness and qualitative analyses increasingly important for understanding their relative performance. We present our findings from standardized and compr…

2021

DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

ACL 2021long

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations. Building such dialogue systems is a challenging problem, involving various reasoning types…