@inproceedings{wen-etal-2017-network,
    title = "A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System",
    author = "Wen, Tsung-Hsien  and
      Vandyke, David  and
      Mrk{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Ga{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica  and
      Rojas-Barahona, Lina M.  and
      Su, Pei-Hao  and
      Ultes, Stefan  and
      Young, Steve",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/E17-1042",
    pages = "438--449",
    abstract = "Teaching machines to accomplish tasks by conversing naturally with humans is challenging. Currently, developing task-oriented dialogue systems requires creating multiple components and typically this involves either a large amount of handcrafting, or acquiring costly labelled datasets to solve a statistical learning problem for each component. In this work we introduce a neural network-based text-in, text-out end-to-end trainable goal-oriented dialogue system along with a new way of collecting dialogue data based on a novel pipe-lined Wizard-of-Oz framework. This approach allows us to develop dialogue systems easily and without making too many assumptions about the task at hand. The results show that the model can converse with human subjects naturally whilst helping them to accomplish tasks in a restaurant search domain.",
}