Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young · 2014
Recently discriminative methods for track-ing the state of a spoken dialog have been shown to outperform traditional generative models. This paper presents a new word-based tracking method which maps di-rectly from the speech recognition results to the dialog state without using an explicit semantic decoder. The method is based on a recurrent neural network structure which is capable of generalising to unseen dialog state hypotheses, and which requires very little feature engineering. The method is evaluated on the second Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC2) corpus and the results demonstrate consistently high performance across all of the metrics. 1