Past Challenges

DSTC1 (2012-2013)

  • Task: Dialog state tracking on human-computer dialogs in the bus timetable domain

  • Organizers: Jason D. Williams, Alan Black, Deepak Ramachandran, Antoine Raux

  • Venue: Special Session @ SIGDIAL 2013

  • Website, Datasets, Overview Paper

DSTC2 (2013-2014)

  • Task: Dialog state tracking on human-computer dialogs in the restaurant information domain

  • Organizers: Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams

  • Venue: Special Session @ SIGDIAL 2014

  • Website & Datasets, Overview Paper

DSTC3 (2014)

  • Task: Domain adaptation for human-computer dialog state tracking from the restaurant to the tourist information domain

  • Organizers: Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams

  • Venue: Special Session @ IEEE SLT 2014

  • Website & Datasets, Overview Paper

DSTC4 (2015)

  • Task: Dialog state tracking on human-human dialogs in the tourist information domain

  • Organizers: Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Matthew Henderson, Jason D. Williams

  • Venue: Special Session @ IWSDS 2016

  • Website, Datasets, Overview Paper

DSTC5 (2016)

  • Task: Cross-language dialog state tracking on human-human dialogs in the tourist information domain

  • Organizers: Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Matthew Henderson, Jason D. Williams, Koichiro Yoshino

  • Venue: Special Session @ IEEE SLT 2016

  • Website, Datasets, Overview Paper

DSTC6 (2017)

DSTC7 (2018)

DSTC8 (2019)