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💬A curated list of incredible amount of publications related to Dialogue Systems especially Chatbots and Chit-chat Systems
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💬A curated list of incredible amount of publications related to Dialogue Systems especially Chatbots and Chit-chat Systems

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        # Awesome Dialogue System Papers

A curated list of incredible amount of publications related to Dialogue Systems especially Chatbots and Chit-chat Systems inspired by `awesome-machine-learning`.

If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send me a pull request or contact me @jaromirsalamon. The preference is about open papers (publically available) with the link to the paper. It doesn't need to be only research papers, but also presentations with various topics or lectures.

- [Challenges or Competitions](#challenges-or-competitions)

	- [Alexa Prize](#alexa-prize)

		- [Alexa Prize 2017](#alexa-prize-2017)

		- [Alexa Prize 2018](#alexa-prize-2018)

		- [Alexa Prize 2019](#alexa-prize-2019)

	- [Dialog System Technology Challenges \(Dialog State Tracking Challenge\)](#dialog-system-technology-challenges-dialog-state-tracking-challenge)

- [Surveys, Reviews](#surveys-reviews)

- [Basics](#basics)

- [Spoken Language Understanding \(SLU\)](#spoken-language-understanding-slu)

- [Natural Language Understanding \(NLU\)](#natural-language-understanding-nlu)

- [Dialogue Management \(DM\)](#dialogue-management-dm)

	- [Research Papers](#research-papers)

	- [Lectures](#lectures)

		- [Dialogue Systems Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department \(2016\)](#dialogue-systems-group-cambridge-university-engineering-department-2016)

	- [Dialogue State Tracking \(DST\)](#dialogue-state-tracking-dst)

		- [Slot Filling](#slot-filling)

		- [State Tracking](#state-tracking)

	- [Dialogue Policy \(DP\)](#dialogue-policy-dp)

- [Natural Language Generation \(NLG\)](#natural-language-generation-nlg)

	- [Research Papers](#research-papers-1)

	- [Lectures](#lectures-1)

- [End to End \(E2E\) Dialogue Systems](#end-to-end-e2e-dialogue-systems)

- [Dialogue Languages](#dialogue-languages)

- [Engines](#engines)

- [Chatbots Evaluation](#chatbots-evaluation)

	- [Quality Evaluation](#quality-evaluation)

	- [Natural Language Generation Evaluation](#natural-language-generation-evaluation)

## Challenges or Competitions

### Alexa Prize

[The Alexa Prize Challenges](https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize/challenges/)

#### Alexa Prize 2017

* [Building CMU Magnus from User Feedback](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Magnus.pdf)

* [RubyStar: A Non-Task-Oriented Mixture Model Dialog System]()

* [Alquist: The Alexa Prize Socialbot](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Alquist.pdf)

* [Emersonbot: Information-Focused Conversational AI Emory University at the Alexa Prize 2017 Challenge](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Emersonbot.pdf)

* [Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and

a Ranker trained on User Feedback](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Alana.pdf)

* [Pixie: A Social Chatbot](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Pixie.pdf)

* [A Two-Layer Dialogue Framework For Authoring Social Bots](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Wisemacaw.pdf)

* [A Chatbot by Combining Finite State Machine, Information Retrieval, and Bot-Initiative Strategy](https://s3.amazonaws.com/alexaprize/2017/technical-article/chattychat.pdf)

* [Eigen: A Step Towards Conversational AI](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Eigen.pdf)

* [Slugbot: An Application of a Novel and Scalable Open Domain Socialbot Framework](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Slugbot.pdf)

* [Edina: Building an Open Domain Socialbot with Self-dialogues](https://s3.amazonaws.com/alexaprize/2017/technical-article/edina.pdf)

* [The Octopus Approach to the Alexa Competition: A Deep Ensemble-based Socialbot](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Mila.pdf)

* [Roving Mind: a balancing act between open–domain and engaging dialogue systems](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Rovingmind.pdf)

* [Sounding Board – University of Washington’s Alexa Prize Submission](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/dex/alexa/alexaprize/assets/pdf/2017/Soundingboard.pdf)

#### Alexa Prize 2018

#### Alexa Prize 2019

* Not announced results yet

### Dialog System Technology Challenges (Dialog State Tracking Challenge)

* [DSTC2: The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge (2016)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/summaryWriteup.pdf)

* [DSTC7: Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (2019)](http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/papers/DSTC7.pdf)

## Surveys, Reviews

* [Current research topics in spoken dialogue systems (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L8.pdf)

* [A survey of statistical user simulation techniques for reinforcement- learning of dialogue management strategies (2006)](http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~sjy/papers/swsy06.pdf)

* [Machine learning for dialog state tracking: A review (2015)](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/cs//pubs/archive/44018.pdf)

* [From Eliza to XiaoIce: Challenges and Opportunities with Social Chatbots (2018)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01957.pdf)

## Basics

* [Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning (1995)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/cmp-lg/9505040.pdf)

## Spoken Language Understanding (SLU)

* [Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00549.pdf)

## Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

## Dialogue Management (DM)

### Research Papers

* [LET’S GO: Improving Spoken Dialog Systems for the Eldery and Non-natives](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dgroup/papers/letsgo.pdf)

* [FRAMES: A CORPUS FOR ADDING MEMORY TO GOAL-ORIENTED DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (2017)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00057.pdf)

### Lectures

#### Dialogue Systems Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department (2016)

* [Introduction to statistical spoken dialogue systems (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L1.pdf)

* [Semantic decoding in dialogue systems (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L2.pdf)

* [Dialogue management: generative approaches to belief tracking (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L3.pdf)

* [Dialogue management: discriminative approaches to belief tracking (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L4.pdf) 

* [Dialogue management: Parametric approaches to policy optimisation (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L5.pdf)

* [Dialogue management: Non-parametric approaches to policy optimisation (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L6.pdf)

### Dialogue State Tracking (DST)

* [Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking (2018)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09587v1.pdf)

#### Slot Filling

* [Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Network Models for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling (2016)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01454.pdf)

* [Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing for Domain Scaling (2017)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.02363.pdf)

* [Comparing Convolutional Neural Networks to Traditional Models for Slot Filling (2016)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05157.pdf)

* [Position-aware Attention and Supervised Data Improve Slot Filling (2017)](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1004.pdf)

* [BERT for Joint Intent Classification and Slot Filling (2019)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10909.pdf)

#### State Tracking

* [Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking (2017)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03777.pdf)

* [Dynamic Memory Networks for Dialogue Topic Tracking](http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/papers/05.pdf)

* [Towards Improving Dialogue Topic Tracking Performances with Wikification of Concept Mentions](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4615.pdf)

### Dialogue Policy (DP)

## Natural Language Generation (NLG)

### Research Papers

* [Adversarial Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation (2017)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06547.pdf)

### Lectures

* [Statistical Natural Language Generation (2016)](https://www.cs.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche_Fakultaet/Informatik/Dialog_Systems_and_Machine_Learning/Lectures_SDS/L7.pdf)

## End to End (E2E) Dialogue Systems

* [](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07243.pdf)

## Dialogue Languages

* AIML

* OIML

* 

## Engines

* ChatScript

* DeepPavlov

* ParlAI

* RASA

## Chatbots Evaluation

### Quality Evaluation

* [Evaluating Quality of Chatbots and Intelligent Conversational Agents (2017)](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1704/1704.04579.pdf)

### Natural Language Generation Evaluation

* [Evaluating the state-of-the-art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG challenge (2020)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230819300919)