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Intent classification and slot-filling are essential tasks of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In most SLUsystems, those tasks are realized by independent modules. For about fifteen years, models achieving both of themjointly and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Nadège Alavoine , Gaëlle Laperriere , Christophe Servan , Sahar Ghannay , Sophie Rosset

Semantic human matting aims to estimate the per-pixel opacity of the foreground human regions. It is quite challenging and usually requires user interactive trimaps and plenty of high quality annotated data. Annotating such kind of data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jinlin Liu , Yuan Yao , Wendi Hou , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Changshui Zhang , Xian-sheng Hua

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

Streaming services have reshaped how we discover and engage with digital entertainment. Despite these advancements, effectively understanding the wide spectrum of user search queries continues to pose a significant challenge. An accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Farnoosh Javadi , Phanideep Gampa , Alyssa Woo , Xingxing Geng , Hang Zhang , Jose Sepulveda , Belhassen Bayar , Fei Wang

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks in natural language understanding and play an essential role in task-oriented dialogue systems. The joint learning of both tasks can improve inference accuracy and is popular in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Liang Huang , Senjie Liang , Feiyang Ye , Nan Gao

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) mainly involves two tasks, intent detection and slot filling, which are generally modeled jointly in existing works. However, most existing models fail to fully utilize co-occurrence relations between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu

Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), a novel and more complex scenario of SLU, is attracting increasing attention. Unlike traditional SLU, each intent in this scenario has its specific scope. Semantic information outside the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Lizhi Cheng , Wenmian Yang , Weijia Jia

Despite the fact that data imbalance is becoming more and more common in real-world Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) applications, it has not been studied extensively in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Judith Gaspers , Quynh Do , Fabian Triefenbach

Semantic segmentation based on sparse annotation has advanced in recent years. It labels only part of each object in the image, leaving the remainder unlabeled. Most of the existing approaches are time-consuming and often necessitate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hui Su , Yue Ye , Wei Hua , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve multiple turns of information exchange. Due to the limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , Bruce Croft , Yongfeng Zhang , Johanne R. Trippas , Minghui Qiu

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) has recently attracted increasing interest. Compared to the conventional tandem-based approach that combines speech recognition and language understanding as separate modules, the new approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Nihal Potdar , Anderson R. Avila , Chao Xing , Dong Wang , Yiran Cao , Xiao Chen

A major focus of recent research in spoken language understanding (SLU) has been on the end-to-end approach where a single model can predict intents directly from speech inputs without intermediate transcripts. However, this approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sujeong Cha , Wangrui Hou , Hyun Jung , My Phung , Michael Picheny , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , Edmilson Morais

When a human communicates with a machine using natural language on the web and online, how can it understand the human's intention and semantic context of their talk? This is an important AI task as it enables the machine to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a core component of human--computer interaction and an increasingly important front-end for LLM-based assistants and agents. However, most current ASR systems still follow a single-pass paradigm, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zixuan Jiang , Yanqiao Zhu , Peng Wang , Qinyuan Chen , Xinjian Zhao , Xipeng Qiu , Wupeng Wang , Zhifu Gao , Xiangang Li , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Accurate prediction of 3D semantic occupancy from 2D visual images is vital in enabling autonomous agents to comprehend their surroundings for planning and navigation. State-of-the-art methods typically employ fully supervised approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Duc-Hai Pham , Duc-Dung Nguyen , Anh Pham , Tuan Ho , Phong Nguyen , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

State-of-the-art slot filling models for goal-oriented human/machine conversational language understanding systems rely on deep learning methods. While multi-task training of such models alleviates the need for large in-domain annotated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ankur Bapna , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Semantic parsing aims at mapping natural language utterances into structured meaning representations. In this work, we propose a structure-aware neural architecture which decomposes the semantic parsing process into two stages. Given an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

Smart glasses are emerging as a promising interface between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enabling first-person perception, contextual awareness, and real-time assistance. However, continuous offloading of visual data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Peiwen Jiang , Fangyu Liu , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang