Memory State Tracker: A Memory Network based Dialogue State Tracker

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is a core component towards task oriented dialogue system. It fills manually-set slots at each turn of an utterance, which indicate the current topics or user requirement. In this work we propose a memory based state tracker that includes a memory encoder which encodes the dialogue history into a memory vector, and then connects to a pointer network which makes predictions. Our model reached a joint goal accuracy of 49.16% on MultiWOZ 2.0 data set (Budzianowski et al., 2018) and 47.27% on MultiWOZ 2.1 data set (Eric et al., 2019), outperforming the benchmark result.