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Recently, multi-task spoken language understanding (SLU) models have emerged, designed to address various speech processing tasks. However, these models often rely on a large number of parameters. Also, they often encounter difficulties in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Hayato Futami , Siddhant Arora , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Shinji Watanabe

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one essential step in building a dialogue system. Due to the expensive cost of obtaining the labeled data, SLU suffers from the data scarcity problem. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Haitao Lin , Lu Xiang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is indispensable for half of all living languages that lack a formal writing system. Unlike for high-resource languages, for these languages, we cannot offload semantic understanding of speech to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian David Schmidt , Ivan Vulić , Goran Glavaš , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture that has been designed to address the vanishing and exploding gradient problems of conventional RNNs. Unlike feedforward neural networks, RNNs have cyclic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Haşim Sak , Andrew Senior , Françoise Beaufays

Spoken Language Understanding infers semantic meaning directly from audio data, and thus promises to reduce error propagation and misunderstandings in end-user applications. However, publicly available SLU resources are limited. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Emanuele Bastianelli , Andrea Vanzo , Pawel Swietojanski , Verena Rieser

One of the key challenges in natural language processing (NLP) is to yield good performance across application domains and languages. In this work, we investigate the robustness of the mention detection systems, one of the fundamental tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Thien Huu Nguyen , Avirup Sil , Georgiana Dinu , Radu Florian

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems, such as goal-oriented chatbots or personal assistants, rely on an initial natural language understanding (NLU) module to determine the intent and to extract the relevant information from the user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mladen Dimovski , Claudiu Musat , Vladimir Ilievski , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a core task in most human-machine interaction systems. With the emergence of smart homes, smart phones and smart speakers, SLU has become a key technology for the industry. In a classical SLU approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Thierry Desot , François Portet , Michel Vacher

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a core component of conversational systems, enabling machines to interpret user utterances. Despite its importance, developing effective SLU systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yan Xie , Yibo Cui , Liang Xie , Erwei Yin

We propose a deep learning model for identifying structure within experiment narratives in scientific literature. We take a sequence labeling approach to this problem, and label clauses within experiment narratives to identify the different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Pradeep Dasigi , Gully A. P. C. Burns , Eduard Hovy , Anita de Waard

The goal of spoken language understanding (SLU) systems is to determine the meaning of the input speech signal, unlike speech recognition which aims to produce verbatim transcripts. Advances in end-to-end (E2E) speech modeling have made it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Zoltan Tuske , Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

Deep learning is at the core of recent spoken language understanding (SLU) related tasks. More precisely, deep neural networks (DNNs) drastically increased the performances of SLU systems, and numerous architectures have been proposed. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Titouan Parcollet , Mohamed Morchid , Xavier Bost , Georges Linarès

Natural language generation (NLG) plays a critical role in spoken dialogue systems. This paper presents a new approach to NLG by using recurrent neural networks (RNN), in which a gating mechanism is applied before RNN computation. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Van-Khanh Tran , Le-Minh Nguyen

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a task that aims to extract semantic information from spoken utterances. Previous research has made progress in end-to-end SLU by using paired speech-text data, such as pre-trained Automatic Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Guan-Wei Wu , Guan-Ting Lin , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

In this paper we propose the Structured Deep Neural Network (structured DNN) as a structured and deep learning framework. This approach can learn to find the best structured object (such as a label sequence) given a structured input (such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Yi-Hsiu Liao , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantic information from the speech utterance of user queries. It is a core component in a task-oriented dialogue system. With the spectacular progress of deep neural network models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haroun Elleuch , Salima Mdhaffar , Yannick Estève , Fethi Bougares

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) predicts intent directly from audio using a single model. It promises to improve the performance of assistant systems by leveraging acoustic information lost in the intermediate textual…

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks involve diverse skills that probe the information extraction, classification and/or generation capabilities of models. In this setting, task-specific training data may not always be available. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Neeraj Agrawal , Sriram Ganapathy

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems extract transcriptions, as well as semantics of intent or named entities from speech, and are essential components of voice activated systems. SLU models, which either directly extract semantics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Milind Rao , Pranav Dheram , Gautam Tiwari , Anirudh Raju , Jasha Droppo , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke

This paper presents a deep learning architecture for the semantic decoder component of a Statistical Spoken Dialogue System. In a slot-filling dialogue, the semantic decoder predicts the dialogue act and a set of slot-value pairs from a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Lina M. Rojas Barahona , Milica Gasic , Nikola Mrkšić , Pei-Hao Su , Stefan Ultes , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Steve Young