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"text": "The proliferation of messaging applications and hardware devices with personal assistants has spurred the imagination of many in the technology industry to create task-oriented dialog systems that help users complete a wide range of tasks through natural language conversations. Tasks include customer support, IT helpdesk, information retrieval, appointment booking, etc. The wide variety of tasks has created the need for a flexible task-oriented dialog system development platform that can support many different use cases, while remaining simple for developers to use and maintain.",
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"text": "user intent and extracting associated information), dialog management (for guiding users towards task completion), and language generation (for converting agent actions to natural-language system responses). The Dialog Manager (DM) contains two sub-systems: the Dialog State Tracker (DST) for keeping track of the current dialog state, and the Dialog Policy (DP) for determining the next action to be taken in a given dialog instance. The DP relies on the internal state provided by DST to select an action, which can be a response to the user, or some operation on the back-end database (DB). In this paper, we present a novel approach to building dialog managers (DMs). In a typical industrial implementation of a taskoriented dialog system, the DM is expressed as a dialog flow, which is often a finite state machine, with nodes representing dialog activities (system actions) and edges representing conditions (dialog states that represent the previous user-system interactions). Since a dialog flow can be viewed as a set of rules that specify the flow between dialog states, it may also be called a rule-based DM.",
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"text": "There has been an increasing need for tools to help dialog authors 1 develop and maintain rule-based DMs. These tools are often implemented as drag-and-drop WYSIWYG tools that allow users to specify and visualize all the details of the dialog flow. They often have deep integration with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) as editing frontends. Examples of rule-based or partially rule-based DMs include Microsoft's Power Virtual Agents (PVA) 2 and Bot Framework (BF) Composer 3 , Google's Dialog Flow 4 , IBM's Watson Assistant 5 , Facebook's Wit.ai 6 and Amazon's Lex 7 . It should be noted that most of these tools have some built-in machine-learned NLU capabilities, i.e. intent classification and entity detection, that can be leveraged to trigger different rule-based dialog flows, e.g. asking appropriate questions based on missing slots from the dialog state.",
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"text": "However, a rule-based DM suffers from two major problems. First, these systems can have difficulty handling complex dialogs. Second, updating a rule-based DM to handle unexpected user responses and off-track conversations is often difficult due to the rigid structure of the dialog flow, the long-tail (sparseness) of user-system dialogs, and the complexity in jumping to unrelated parts of the flow.",
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"text": "In end-to-end approaches proposed recently (Madotto et al., 2018; Lei et al., 2018) , the DM is implemented as a neural network model that is trained directly on text transcripts of dialogs. presents a survey of recent approaches. One benefit provided by using a neural network model is that the network infers a latent representation of dialog state, eliminating the need for explicitly specifying dialog states. Neural-based DMs has been an area of active development for the research community as well as in industry; Py-Dial (Ultes et al., 2017) , ParlAI (Miller et al., 2017) , Plato (Papangelis et al., 2020) , Rasa (Bocklisch et al., 2017) , DeepPavlov (Burtsev et al., 2018) , and ConvLab (Lee et al., 2019) are a few examples. However, these machine-learned neural DMs are often viewed as black boxes from which dialog authors have difficulty interpreting why individual use cases succeed or fail. Further, these approaches often lack a general mechanism for accepting task-specific knowledge and constraints, thus requiring a large number of validated dialog transcripts for training. Collection and curation of this type of corpus is often infeasible.",
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"text": "This paper presents Conversation Learner, a machine teaching tool for building DMs, which combines the strengths of both rule-based and machinelearned approaches. Conversation Learner is based on Hybrid Code Networks (HCNs) (Williams et al., 2017) and the machine teaching discipline (Simard et al., 2017) . Conversation Learner allows dialog authors to (1) import a dialog flow developed using popular dialog composers, (2) convert the dialog flow to an HCN-based DM, (3) continuously improve the HCN-based DM by reviewing usersystem dialog logs and providing updates via a machine teaching UI, and (4) convert the (revised) HCN-based DM back into a dialog flow for further editing and verification.",
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