Simplifying Dataflow Dialogue Design. (arXiv:2206.14125v1 [cs.CL])

In \citep{andreas2020task-oriented}, a dataflow (DF) based dialogue system
was introduced, showing clear advantages compared to many commonly used current
systems. This was accompanied by the release of SMCalFlow, a practically
relevant, manually annotated dataset, more detailed and much larger than any
comparable dialogue dataset. Despite these remarkable contributions, the
community has not shown further interest in this direction. What are the
reasons for this lack of interest? And how can the community be encouraged to
engage in research in this …

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