@inproceedings{jacqmin-etal-2022-follow,
    title = "{\textquotedblleft}Do you follow me?{\textquotedblright}: A Survey of Recent Approaches in Dialogue State Tracking",
    author = "Jacqmin, L{\'e}o  and
      Rojas Barahona, Lina M.  and
      Favre, Benoit",
    editor = "Lemon, Oliver  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy  and
      Ashrafzadeh, Arash  and
      Garcia, Daniel Hern{\'a}ndez  and
      Alikhani, Malihe  and
      Vandyke, David  and
      Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = sep,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Edinburgh, UK",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2022.sigdial-1.33/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.sigdial-1.33",
    pages = "336--350",
    abstract = "While communicating with a user, a task-oriented dialogue system has to track the user`s needs at each turn according to the conversation history. This process called dialogue state tracking (DST) is crucial because it directly informs the downstream dialogue policy. DST has received a lot of interest in recent years with the text-to-text paradigm emerging as the favored approach. In this review paper, we first present the task and its associated datasets. Then, considering a large number of recent publications, we identify highlights and advances of research in 2021-2022. Although neural approaches have enabled significant progress, we argue that some critical aspects of dialogue systems such as generalizability are still underexplored. To motivate future studies, we propose several research avenues."
}