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Scalability for handling unknown slot values is a important problem in dialogue state tracking (DST). As far as we know, previous scalable DST approaches generally rely on either the candidate generation from slot tagging output or the span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Puhai Yang , Heyan Huang , Xianling Mao

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

Spoken language understanding (SLU) treats automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a unified task and usually suffers from data scarcity. We exploit an ASR and NLU joint training method based on meta…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one of the core components of a task-oriented dialogue system, which aims to extract the semantic meaning of user queries (e.g., intents and slots). In this work, we introduce OpenSLU, an open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Libo Qin , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Yunlong Feng , Wanxiang Che

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is the problem of extracting the meaning from speech utterances. It is typically addressed as a two-step problem, where an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model is employed to convert speech into text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Elisavet Palogiannidi , Ioannis Gkinis , George Mastrapas , Petr Mizera , Themos Stafylakis

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) consists of two sub-tasks: intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF). Given its broad range of real-world applications, enhancing SLU for practical deployment is increasingly critical. Profile-based SLU…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Di Wu , Liting Jiang , Ruiyu Fang , Bianjing , Hongyan Xie , Haoxiang Su , Hao Huang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Xuelong Li

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) can infer semantics directly from speech signal without cascading an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) with a natural language understanding (NLU) module. However, paired utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yao Qian , Ximo Bian , Yu Shi , Naoyuki Kanda , Leo Shen , Zhen Xiao , Michael Zeng

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding (SLU) is a critical component, which consists of two sub-tasks, intent detection and slot filling. Most existing methods focus on the single-intent SLU, where each utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Liz Li , Wei Zhu

The sequential order of utterances is often meaningful in coherent dialogues, and the order changes of utterances could lead to low-quality and incoherent conversations. We consider the order information as a crucial supervised signal for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jiawei Wu , Xin Wang , William Yang Wang

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) converts hypotheses from automatic speech recognizer (ASR) into structured semantic representations. ASR recognition errors can severely degenerate the performance of the subsequent SLU module. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Chen Liu , Su Zhu , Zijian Zhao , Ruisheng Cao , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) systems avoid an intermediate textual representation by mapping speech directly into intents with slot values. This approach requires considerable domain-specific training data. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Pu Wang , Bagher BabaAli , Hugo Van hamme

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

The lack of speech data annotated with labels required for spoken language understanding (SLU) is often a major hurdle in building end-to-end (E2E) systems that can directly process speech inputs. In contrast, large amounts of text data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samuel Thomas , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

Structured outputs are essential for large language models (LLMs) in critical applications like agents and information extraction. Despite their capabilities, LLMs often generate outputs that deviate from predefined schemas, significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Darren Yow-Bang Wang , Zhengyuan Shen , Soumya Smruti Mishra , Zhichao Xu , Yifei Teng , Haibo Ding

The lack of publicly available evaluation data for low-resource languages limits progress in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). As key tasks like intent classification and slot filling require abundant training data, it is desirable to…

Human conversations can evolve in many different ways, creating challenges for automatic understanding and summarization. Goal-oriented conversations often have meaningful sub-dialogue structure, but it can be highly domain-dependent. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Bo-Ru Lu , Yushi Hu , Hao Cheng , Noah A. Smith , Mari Ostendorf

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

An essential component of spoken language understanding (SLU) is slot filling: representing the meaning of a spoken utterance using semantic entity labels. In this paper, we develop end-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding systems…

Dialogue Act recognition associate dialogue acts (i.e., semantic labels) to utterances in a conversation. The problem of associating semantic labels to utterances can be treated as a sequence labeling problem. In this work, we build a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Harshit Kumar , Arvind Agarwal , Riddhiman Dasgupta , Sachindra Joshi , Arun Kumar

We present Mu$^{2}$SLAM, a multilingual sequence-to-sequence model pre-trained jointly on unlabeled speech, unlabeled text and supervised data spanning Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Automatic Speech Translation (AST) and Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yong Cheng , Yu Zhang , Melvin Johnson , Wolfgang Macherey , Ankur Bapna