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Intent recognition aims to identify users' underlying intentions, traditionally focusing on text in natural language processing. With growing demands for natural human-computer interaction, the field has evolved through deep learning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jingwei Zhao , Yuhua Wen , Qifei Li , Minchi Hu , Yingying Zhou , Jingyao Xue , Junyang Wu , Yingming Gao , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Ya Li

Open intent classification is a practical yet challenging task in dialogue systems. Its objective is to accurately classify samples of known intents while at the same time detecting those of open (unknown) intents. Existing methods usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zifeng Cheng , Zhiwei Jiang , Yafeng Yin , Cong Wang , Qing Gu

Intent detection and slot filling are critical tasks in spoken and natural language understanding for task-oriented dialog systems. In this work we describe our participation in the slot and intent detection for low-resource language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sang Yun Kwon , Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Log data can reveal valuable information about how users interact with Web search services, what they want, and how satisfied they are. However, analyzing user intents in log data is not easy, especially for emerging forms of Web search…

Most dialogue systems in real world rely on predefined intents and answers for QA service, so discovering potential intents from large corpus previously is really important for building such dialogue services. Considering that most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Feng Wei , Zhenbo Chen , Zhenghong Hao , Fengxin Yang , Hua Wei , Bing Han , Sheng Guo

Intent detection of spoken queries is a challenging task due to their noisy structure and short length. To provide additional information regarding the query and enhance the performance of intent detection, we propose a method for semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eyup Halit Yilmaz , Cagri Toraman

Current language model-driven agents often lack mechanisms for effective user participation, which is crucial given the vagueness commonly found in user instructions. Although adept at devising strategies and performing tasks, these agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Cheng Qian , Bingxiang He , Zhong Zhuang , Jia Deng , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Zhong Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Intent, a critical cognitive notion and mental state, is ubiquitous in human communication and problem-solving. Accurately understanding the underlying intent behind questions is imperative to reasoning towards correct answers. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuwei Yin , Giuseppe Carenini

Natural language understanding typically maps single utterances to a dual level semantic frame, sentence level intent and slot labels at the word level. The best performing models force explicit interaction between intent detection and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Henry Weld , Sijia Hu , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Open intent classification is a challenging task in dialogue systems. On the one hand, it should ensure the quality of known intent identification. On the other hand, it needs to detect the open (unknown) intent without prior knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Ting-En Lin

This work investigates the ability of open Large Language Models (LLMs) to predict citation intent through in-context learning and fine-tuning. Unlike traditional approaches relying on domain-specific pre-trained models like SciBERT, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Paris Koloveas , Serafeim Chatzopoulos , Thanasis Vergoulis , Christos Tryfonopoulos

Textual open intent classification is crucial for real-world dialogue systems, enabling robust detection of unknown user intents without prior knowledge and contributing to the robustness of the system. While adaptive decision boundary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuetian Zou , Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Songze Li , Long Xiao

Recent years have seen remarkable progress of text generation in different contexts, such as the most common setting of generating text from scratch, and the emerging paradigm of retrieval-and-rewriting. Text infilling, which fills missing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Wanrong Zhu , Zhiting Hu , Eric Xing

Spoken language understanding (SLU) acts as a critical component in goal-oriented dialog systems. It typically involves identifying the speakers intent and extracting semantic slots from user utterances, which are known as intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mengyang Chen , Jin Zeng , Jie Lou

Intent detection is a key part of any Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system of a conversational assistant. Detecting the correct intent is essential yet difficult for email conversations where multiple directives and intents are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Soham Deshmukh , Charles Lee

Building a machine learning driven spoken dialog system for goal-oriented interactions involves careful design of intents and data collection along with development of intent recognition models and dialog policy learning algorithms. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Saurav Sahay , Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Haroon Syed , Lama Nachman

Out-of-scope (OOS) intent detection is a critical challenge in task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), as it ensures robustness to unseen and ambiguous queries. In this work, we propose a novel but simple modular framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Álvaro Zaera , Diana Nicoleta Popa , Ivan Sekulic , Paolo Rosso

In this paper, we present a method for correcting automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors using a finite state transducer (FST) intent recognition framework. Intent recognition is a powerful technique for dialog flow management in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Piotr Żelasko , Jan Mizgajski , Mikołaj Morzy , Adrian Szymczak , Piotr Szymański , Łukasz Augustyniak , Yishay Carmiel

Comprehending the overall intent of an utterance helps a listener recognize the individual words spoken. Inspired by this fact, we perform a novel study of the impact of explicitly incorporating intent representations as additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Swayambhu Nath Ray , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Pegah Ghahremani , Raghavendra Bilgi , Milind Rao , Harish Arsikere , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Jasha Droppo
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