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We present our work on Track 2 in the Dialog System Technology Challenges 11 (DSTC11). DSTC11-Track2 aims to provide a benchmark for zero-shot, cross-domain, intent-set induction. In the absence of in-domain training dataset, robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jihyun Lee , Seungyeon Seo , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Systems like Voice-command based conversational agents are characterized by a pre-defined set of skills or intents to perform user specified tasks. In the course of time, newer intents may emerge requiring retraining. However, the newer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Intent detection with semantically similar fine-grained intents is a challenging task. To address it, we reformulate intent detection as a question-answering retrieval task by treating utterances and intent names as questions and answers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Asaf Yehudai , Matan Vetzler , Yosi Mass , Koren Lazar , Doron Cohen , Boaz Carmeli

Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to modern Human-AI collaboration workflows, where accurately understanding user intent serves as a crucial step for generating satisfactory responses. Context-aware intent understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guanming Liu , Meng Wu , Peng Zhang , Yu Zhang , Yubo Shu , Xianliang Huang , Kainan Tu , Ning Gu , Liuxin Zhang , Qianying Wang , Tun Lu

Deriving value from a conversational AI system depends on the capacity of a user to translate the prior knowledge into a configuration. In most cases, discovering the set of relevant turn-level speaker intents is often one of the key steps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mrinal Rawat , Hithesh Sankararaman , Victor Barres

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to mimic human social intelligence. However, most studies focus on simplistic and static self-report or performance-based tests, which limits the depth and validity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyi Liu , Abhishek Anand , Pei Zhou , Jen-tse Huang , Jieyu Zhao

In this paper, we provide an extensive analysis of multi-label intent classification using Large Language Models (LLMs) that are open-source, publicly available, and can be run in consumer hardware. We use the MultiWOZ 2.1 dataset, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Adnan Ahmad , Philine Kowol , Stefan Hillmann , Sebastian Möller

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports. However, while these models are trained on diverse academic papers and reports, they are not exposed to the reasoning processes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xinran Zhao , Aakanksha Naik , Jay DeYoung , Joseph Chee Chang , Jena D. Hwang , Tongshuang Wu , Varsha Kishore

The rapidly growing market demand for automatic dialogue agents capable of goal-oriented behavior has caused many tech-industry leaders to invest considerable efforts into task-oriented dialog systems. The success of these systems is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ella Rabinovich , Matan Vetzler , David Boaz , Vineet Kumar , Gaurav Pandey , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Intent detection aims to identify user intents from natural language inputs, where supervised methods rely heavily on labeled in-domain (IND) data and struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) intents, limiting their practical applicability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiao Wei , Xiaobao Wang , Ning Zhuang , Chenyang Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu dang

This review explores recent advances in commonsense reasoning and intent detection, two key challenges in natural language understanding. We analyze 28 papers from ACL, EMNLP, and CHI (2020-2025), organizing them by methodology and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Md Nazmus Sakib

User intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems. Most previous works treat intent detection as a classification problem where utterances are labeled with predefined intents. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

Open intent detection, a crucial aspect of natural language understanding, involves the identification of previously unseen intents in user-generated text. Despite the progress made in this field, challenges persist in handling new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yihao Fang , Xianzhi Li , Stephen W. Thomas , Xiaodan Zhu

Effective conversational search demands a deep understanding of user intent across multiple dialogue turns. Users frequently use abbreviations and shift topics in the middle of conversations, posing challenges for conventional retrievers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Seunghan Yang , Juntae Lee , Jihwan Bang , Kyuhong Shim , Minsoo Kim , Simyung Chang

Multi-intent spoken language understanding (SLU) involves two tasks: multiple intent detection and slot filling, which jointly handle utterances containing more than one intent. Owing to this characteristic, which closely reflects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Di Wu , Ruiyu Fang , Liting Jiang , Shuangyong Song , Xiaomeng Huang , Shiquan Wang , Zhongqiu Li , Lingling Shi , Mengjiao Bao , Yongxiang Li , Hao Huang

Intent-aware session recommendation (ISR) is pivotal in discerning user intents within sessions for precise predictions. Traditional approaches, however, face limitations due to their presumption of a uniform number of intents across all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhu Sun , Hongyang Liu , Xinghua Qu , Kaidong Feng , Yan Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

Understanding human intent is a complex, high-level task for large language models (LLMs), requiring analytical reasoning, contextual interpretation, dynamic information aggregation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Real-world public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaozhe Li , TianYi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yuxi Gong , Yizhao Yang , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

Intent detection and identification from multi-turn dialogue has become a widely explored technique in conversational agents, for example, voice assistants and intelligent customer services. The conventional approaches typically cast the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zengguang Hao , Jie Zhang , Binxia Xu , Yafang Wang , Gerard de Melo , Xiaolong Li

Developing a dialogue agent that is capable of making autonomous decisions and communicating by natural language is one of the long-term goals of machine learning research. Traditional approaches either rely on hand-crafting a small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Tsung-Hsien Wen , Yishu Miao , Phil Blunsom , Steve Young

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