{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2963641152","doi":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1299","title":"Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking","display_name":"Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking","publication_year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2963641152","doi":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1299","mag":"2963641152"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1299","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1299","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1299.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1299.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5055976235","display_name":"Liliang Ren","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210165726","display_name":"Shanghai Municipal Education Commission","ror":"https://ror.org/05tewj457","country_code":"CN","type":"funder","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210165456","https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I183067930","display_name":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University","ror":"https://ror.org/0220qvk04","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Liliang Ren","raw_affiliation_strings":["Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5032594507","display_name":"Kaige Xie","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210165726","display_name":"Shanghai Municipal Education Commission","ror":"https://ror.org/05tewj457","country_code":"CN","type":"funder","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210165456","https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I183067930","display_name":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University","ror":"https://ror.org/0220qvk04","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kaige Xie","raw_affiliation_strings":["Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100605099","display_name":"Chen L\u00fc","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1927-2391"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210165726","display_name":"Shanghai Municipal Education Commission","ror":"https://ror.org/05tewj457","country_code":"CN","type":"funder","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210165456","https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I183067930","display_name":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University","ror":"https://ror.org/0220qvk04","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Lu Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5043098653","display_name":"Kai Yu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7102-9826"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210165726","display_name":"Shanghai Municipal Education Commission","ror":"https://ror.org/05tewj457","country_code":"CN","type":"funder","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210165456","https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I183067930","display_name":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University","ror":"https://ror.org/0220qvk04","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kai Yu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Key Lab. of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Eng. SpeechLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brain Science and Technology Research Center","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210165726"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I183067930"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":4,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5055976235"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I183067930","https://openalex.org/I4210165726"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":17.6,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":150,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99271527,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":94,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"2780","last_page":"2786"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12031","display_name":"Speech and dialogue systems","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12031","display_name":"Speech and dialogue systems","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10028","display_name":"Topic Modeling","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10181","display_name":"Natural Language Processing Techniques","score":0.9987000226974487,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8086200952529907},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/word","display_name":"Word (group theory)","score":0.6433559656143188},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/state","display_name":"State (computer science)","score":0.6154993772506714},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/tracking","display_name":"Tracking (education)","score":0.5659065246582031},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.5560160875320435},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/core","display_name":"Core (optical fiber)","score":0.5293824076652527},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ontology","display_name":"Ontology","score":0.4973941147327423},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/natural-language-processing","display_name":"Natural language processing","score":0.47705402970314026},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scale","display_name":"Scale (ratio)","score":0.42434582114219666},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/algorithm","display_name":"Algorithm","score":0.09296640753746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematics","display_name":"Mathematics","score":0.08512240648269653}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8086200952529907},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C90805587","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10944557","display_name":"Word (group theory)","level":2,"score":0.6433559656143188},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C48103436","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599031","display_name":"State (computer science)","level":2,"score":0.6154993772506714},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775936607","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466845","display_name":"Tracking (education)","level":2,"score":0.5659065246582031},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.5560160875320435},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2164484","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5170150","display_name":"Core (optical fiber)","level":2,"score":0.5293824076652527},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C25810664","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44325","display_name":"Ontology","level":2,"score":0.4973941147327423},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204321447","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30642","display_name":"Natural language processing","level":1,"score":0.47705402970314026},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778755073","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10858537","display_name":"Scale (ratio)","level":2,"score":0.42434582114219666},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11413529","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8366","display_name":"Algorithm","level":1,"score":0.09296640753746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.08512240648269653},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2524010","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8087","display_name":"Geometry","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121332964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413","display_name":"Physics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19417346","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7922","display_name":"Pedagogy","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C62520636","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944","display_name":"Quantum mechanics","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1299","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1299","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1299.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1299","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1299","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1299.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G1121271761","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"Program","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2087396116","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"China","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2915035755","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2017YFB1002102","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","funder_display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G3085993365","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"(Grant No.","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G466649759","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2017Y","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","funder_display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G5039175848","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"61573241","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7429600474","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2017YFB1","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","funder_display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7726157001","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"Grant No.","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8340078520","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2017YF","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","funder_display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8823009050","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2017YFB","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","funder_display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320322999","display_name":"Shanghai Jiao Tong University","ror":"https://ror.org/0220qvk04"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335777","display_name":"National Key Research and Development Program of China","ror":null}],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2963641152.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2963641152.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":33,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1604102475","https://openalex.org/W1785674045","https://openalex.org/W1814992895","https://openalex.org/W1975244201","https://openalex.org/W1986362700","https://openalex.org/W1993567041","https://openalex.org/W2055537935","https://openalex.org/W2064675550","https://openalex.org/W2115101920","https://openalex.org/W2119015791","https://openalex.org/W2250176356","https://openalex.org/W2250297846","https://openalex.org/W2250456405","https://openalex.org/W2251058040","https://openalex.org/W2251149342","https://openalex.org/W2251235149","https://openalex.org/W2251937901","https://openalex.org/W2286478544","https://openalex.org/W2511044633","https://openalex.org/W2591949110","https://openalex.org/W2798367796","https://openalex.org/W2882101086","https://openalex.org/W2888868336","https://openalex.org/W2962847367","https://openalex.org/W2963009325","https://openalex.org/W2963283951","https://openalex.org/W2963775726","https://openalex.org/W2963797754","https://openalex.org/W2964057895","https://openalex.org/W2964101860","https://openalex.org/W3140947850","https://openalex.org/W4298213327","https://openalex.org/W4394666973"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2003333417","https://openalex.org/W2084086966","https://openalex.org/W2378862226","https://openalex.org/W118236634","https://openalex.org/W2355326633","https://openalex.org/W2804669904","https://openalex.org/W2149777447","https://openalex.org/W2347456287","https://openalex.org/W2121651557","https://openalex.org/W2296205523"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Dialogue":[0],"state":[1,92],"tracking":[2],"is":[3,66,95],"the":[4,14,51,69,98,129,135],"core":[5],"part":[6],"of":[7,16,42,63,71,97,100,113,137],"a":[8,89],"spoken":[9],"dialogue":[10,22,35,91],"system.":[11],"It":[12,94],"estimates":[13],"beliefs":[15],"possible":[17],"user's":[18],"goals":[19],"at":[20],"every":[21],"turn.":[23],"However,":[24],"for":[25],"most":[26],"current":[27],"approaches,":[28],"it's":[29],"difficult":[30],"to":[31,33,68],"scale":[32],"large":[34],"domains.":[36],"They":[37],"have":[38],"one":[39],"or":[40],"more":[41],"following":[43],"limitations:":[44],"(a)":[45],"Some":[46,74],"models":[47,75],"don't":[48],"work":[49],"in":[50,56],"situation":[52],"where":[53],"slot":[54],"values":[55],"ontology":[57],"changes":[58],"dynamically;":[59],"(b)":[60],"The":[61],"number":[62,70,99],"model":[64],"parameters":[65,103],"proportional":[67],"slots;":[72],"(c)":[73],"extract":[76],"features":[77],"based":[78],"on":[79,119],"hand-crafted":[80],"lexicons.":[81],"To":[82],"tackle":[83],"these":[84],"challenges,":[85],"we":[86],"propose":[87],"StateNet,":[88],"universal":[90],"tracker.":[93],"independent":[96],"values,":[101],"shares":[102],"across":[104],"all":[105],"slots,":[106],"and":[107],"uses":[108],"pre-trained":[109],"word":[110],"vectors":[111],"instead":[112],"explicit":[114],"semantic":[115],"dictionaries.":[116],"Our":[117],"experiments":[118],"two":[120],"datasets":[121],"show":[122],"that":[123],"our":[124],"approach":[125],"not":[126],"only":[127],"overcomes":[128],"limitations,":[130],"but":[131],"also":[132],"significantly":[133],"outperforms":[134],"performance":[136],"state-of-the-art":[138],"approaches.":[139]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":19},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":20},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":27},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":47},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":30}],"updated_date":"2026-04-14T08:04:32.555800","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}