Collaborative and Proactive Management of Task-Oriented Conversations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05110v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:18:13 GMT
• Title: Collaborative and Proactive Management of Task-Oriented Conversations
• Abstract summary: Task oriented dialogue systems (TODs) complete tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions.<n>While proactive planning is crucial for task completion, many existing TODs overlook effective goal-aware planning.<n>This paper creates a model for managing task-oriented conversations, conceptualized centered on the information state approach to dialogue management.
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• Abstract: Task oriented dialogue systems (TOD) complete particular tasks based on user preferences across natural language interactions. Considering the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, most of the latest TODs are centered on LLMs. While proactive planning is crucial for task completion, many existing TODs overlook effective goal-aware planning. This paper creates a model for managing task-oriented conversations, conceptualized centered on the information state approach to dialogue management. The created model incorporated constructive intermediate information in planning. Initially, predefined slots and text part informational components are created to model user preferences. Investigating intermediate information, critical circumstances are identified. Informational components corresponding to these circumstances are created. Possible configurations for these informational components lead to limited information states. Then, dialogue moves, which indicate movement between these information states and the procedures that must be performed in the movements, are created. Eventually, the update strategy is constructed. The created model is implemented leveraging in-context learning of LLMs. In this model, database queries are created centered on indicated predefined slots and the order of retrieved entities is indicated centered on text part. This mechanism enables passing the whole corresponding entities to the preferences in the order of congruency. Evaluations exploiting the complete test conversations of MultiWOZ, with no more than a domain in a conversation, illustrate maximal inform and success, and improvement compared with previous methods.

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