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Accepted: 6 April 2024

First Online: 6 July 2024

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: The authors declare that there are no competing interests regarding the publication of this paper. This research was conducted independently and did not receive specific funding from any agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. The development and testing of the Deep Context Transformer model was performed without any influence from software or hardware vendors, ensuring an unbiased approach in the research. Any software or tools mentioned in this paper are cited purely based on their relevance and utility to the research, and do not imply endorsement.

: The research presented in this paper utilized the Schema-Guided Dialogue dataset from the 8th Dialogue System Technology Challenge (DSTC8), hosted on the Hugging Face platform (). This dataset is publicly available and was designed for research purposes, ensuring that all data used in this study adheres to ethical standards for data use in research. No ethical approval was required as the dataset contains no personal or sensitive information, and it is specifically intended for public use in dialogue system research. The dataset was used in accordance with the terms and conditions provided by the hosting platform.