Challenge: End-to-end task-oriented dialog systems often suffer from the challenge of incorporating knowledge bases.
Approach: They propose a novel yet simple end-to-end differentiable model called memory-tosequence to address this issue.
Outcome: The proposed model can be trained faster and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three different task-oriented dialog datasets.

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Challenge: Dissertation addresses the limitations of conventional task-oriented dialog systems . conventions of such systems include a complex pipeline and dialog state tracking .
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