HCLD: A Hierarchical Framework for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue System

Zhanyu Ma, Jian Ye, Xurui Yang, Jianfeng Liu

Abstract
Recently, many task-oriented dialogue systems need to serve users in different languages. However, it is time-consuming to collect enough data of each language for training. Thus, zero-shot adaptation of cross-lingual task-oriented dialog systems has been studied. Most of existing methods consider the word-level alignments to conduct two main tasks for task-oriented dialogue system, i.e., intent detection and slot filling, and they rarely explore the dependency relations among these two tasks. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical framework to classify the pre-defined intents in the high-level and fulfill slot filling under the guidance of intent in the low-level. Particularly, we incorporate sentence-level alignment among different languages to enhance the performance of intent detection. The extensive experiments report that our proposed method achieves the SOTA performance on a public task-oriented dialog dataset.
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2022.coling-1.396
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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4492–4498
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Zhanyu Ma, Jian Ye, Xurui Yang, and Jianfeng Liu. 2022. HCLD: A Hierarchical Framework for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4492–4498, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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