Recent research on dialogue state tracking (DST) focuses on methods that allow few- and zero-shot transfer to new domains or schemas. However, performance gains heavily depend on aggressive data augmentation and fine-tuning of ever larger language model based architectures. In contrast, general purpose language models, trained on large amounts of diverse data, hold the promise of solving any kind of task without task-specific training. We present preliminary experimental results on the ChatGPT research preview, showing that ChatGPT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot DST. Despite our findings, we argue that properties inherent to general purpose models limit their ability to replace specialized systems. We further theorize that the in-context learning capabilities of such models will likely become powerful tools to support the development of dedicated and dynamic dialogue state trackers.

我们使用 ChatGPT ，一个通用语言模型，展示了它在零-shot DST 上达到的最先进的表现，并证明了通用模型在专业系统替代方面的能力受到其属性的限制，但我们认为通用模型的语境学习能力很可能成为支持专门的动态对话状态跟踪器开发的有力工具。

零-shot对话状态跟踪的ChatGPT：解决方案还是机会？