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The success of interactive dialog systems is usually associated with the quality of the spoken language understanding (SLU) task, which mainly identifies the corresponding dialog acts and slot values in each turn. By treating utterances in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ting-Wei Wu , Ruolin Su , Biing-Hwang Juang

Deep learning (DL) based language models achieve high performance on various benchmarks for Natural Language Inference (NLI). And at this time, symbolic approaches to NLI are receiving less attention. Both approaches (symbolic and DL) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zeming Chen , Qiyue Gao , Lawrence S. Moss

Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems rely on sophisticated semantic notions revealed in single utterances to detect intents and slots. However, they lack the capability of modeling multi-turn dynamics within a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantics frame of user queries, which is a core component in a task-oriented dialog system. With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of pre-trained language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Libo Qin , Tianbao Xie , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

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

The challenge of defining a slot schema to represent the state of a task-oriented dialogue system is addressed by Slot Schema Induction (SSI), which aims to automatically induce slots from unlabeled dialogue data. Whereas previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 James D. Finch , Boxin Zhao , Jinho D. Choi

Spoken language understanding (SLU) topic has seen a lot of progress these last three years, with the emergence of end-to-end neural approaches. Spoken language understanding refers to natural language processing tasks related to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Sahar Ghannay , Antoine Caubrière , Salima Mdhaffar , Gaëlle Laperrière , Bassam Jabaian , Yannick Estève

Dialogue data has been a key source for understanding learning processes, offering critical insights into how students engage in collaborative discussions and how these interactions shape their knowledge construction. The advent of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ying Na , Shihui Feng

Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in conversational systems that predict the next system actions in response to a current user utterance. Conventional approaches aggregate separate models of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Xuesong Yang , Yun-Nung Chen , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Paul Crook , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

Current researches on spoken language understanding (SLU) heavily are limited to a simple setting: the plain text-based SLU that takes the user utterance as input and generates its corresponding semantic frames (e.g., intent and slots).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Xiao Xu , Libo Qin , Kaiji Chen , Guoxing Wu , Linlin Li , Wanxiang Che

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) plays a crucial role in speech-centric multimedia applications, enabling machines to comprehend spoken language in scenarios such as meetings, interviews, and customer service interactions. SLU…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Zhichao Sheng , Shilin Zhou , Chen Gong , Zhenghua Li

Slot filling is a crucial subtask in spoken language understanding (SLU), traditionally implemented as a cascade of speech recognition followed by one or more natural language understanding (NLU) components. The recent advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Kadri Hacioglu , Manjunath K E , 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

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), which aims to extract user semantics to execute downstream tasks, is a crucial component of task-oriented dialog systems. Existing SLU datasets generally lack sufficient diversity and complexity, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yuezhang Peng , Chonghao Cai , Ziang Liu , Shuai Fan , Sheng Jiang , Hua Xu , Yuxin Liu , Qiguang Chen , Kele Xu , Yao Li , Sheng Wang , Libo Qin , Xie Chen

Developing language model-based dialogue agents requires effective data to train models that can follow specific task logic. However, most existing data simulation methods focus on increasing diversity in language, topics, or dialogue acts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wanyu Du , Song Feng , James Gung , Lijia Sun , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Yanjun Qi

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

In-context learning enables language models (LM) to adapt to downstream data or tasks by incorporating few samples as demonstrations within the prompts. It offers strong performance without the expense of fine-tuning. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services. Motivated by the insight that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hyundong Cho , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Satwik Kottur , Jing Xu , Jonathan May , Chinnadhurai Sankar

With the advent of conversational assistants, like Amazon Alexa, Google Now, etc., dialogue systems are gaining a lot of traction, especially in industrial setting. These systems typically consist of Spoken Language understanding component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Arshit Gupta , John Hewitt , Katrin Kirchhoff