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This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach to dialog state tracking (DST) that can handle new slot values not seen during training. The approach is based on a long short-term memory recurrent neural network with an attention mechanism. Unlike with conventional attention mechanisms, we use encoded user utterances and a hypothesis for the slot value (the target value) to calculate attention weights. In addition, while conventional attention mechanisms focus on words that correspond to trained values, the proposed attention mechanism focuses on words that correspond to a target value. Therefore, the DST model can detect unseen values by adding values to the hypothesis as target values. The proposed approach is evaluated using the second and the third Dialog State Tracking Challenge datasets. Evaluation results show that the proposed method improves 10.3 points on unseen slot values.
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The authors would like to thank Professor Masami Akamine for his insightful comments and suggestions.
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Yoshida, T., Iwata, K., Kobayashi, Y., Fujimura, H. (2021). Dialog State Tracking with Incorporation of Target Values in Attention Models. In: D'Haro, L.F., Callejas, Z., Nakamura, S. (eds) Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 704. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_9
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