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Spoken language understanding (SLU) typically includes two subtasks: intent detection and slot filling. Currently, it has achieved great success in high-resource languages, but it still remains challenging in low-resource languages due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Tianjun Mao , Chenghong Zhang

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

Most human interactions occur in the form of spoken conversations where the semantic meaning of a given utterance depends on the context. Each utterance in spoken conversation can be represented by many semantic and speaker attributes, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Siddhant Arora , Hayato Futami , Emiru Tsunoo , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

Slot filling and intent detection have become a significant theme in the field of natural language understanding. Even though slot filling is intensively associated with intent detection, the characteristics of the information required for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yanfei Hui , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Fengying Yu , Tianbo Wu , Jing Xiao

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate coherent text, they often struggle to recognise user intent behind queries. In contrast, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models interpret the purpose and key information of user input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yan Li , So-Eon Kim , Seong-Bae Park , Soyeon Caren Han

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

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding(SLU) system. Multiple deep learning based models have demonstrated good results on these tasks . The most effective algorithms are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yu Wang , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems consist of several machine learning components operating together (e.g. intent classification, named entity recognition and resolution). Deep learning models have obtained state of the art results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Akshit Tyagi , Varun Sharma , Rahul Gupta , Lynn Samson , Nan Zhuang , Zihang Wang , Bill Campbell

We investigate the usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the slot filling task in spoken language understanding. We propose a novel CNN architecture for sequence labeling which takes into account the previous context words with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Ngoc Thang Vu

Intent and Slot Identification are two important tasks in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). For a natural language utterance, there is a high correlation between these two tasks. A lot of work has been done on each of these using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Anmol Bhasin , Bharatram Natarajan , Gaurav Mathur , Himanshu Mangla

Dialogue contexts are proven helpful in the spoken language understanding (SLU) system and they are typically encoded with explicit memory representations. However, most of the previous models learn the context memory with only one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 He Bai , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Understanding spoken language is a highly complex problem, which can be decomposed into several simpler tasks. In this paper, we focus on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), the module of spoken dialog systems responsible for extracting a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Marco Dinarelli , Yoann Dupont , Isabelle Tellier

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

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. The two tasks are closely related and the information of one task can be utilized in the other task. Previous studies either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Libo Qin , Tailu Liu , Wanxiang Che , Bingbing Kang , Sendong Zhao , Ting Liu

Recently deep learning has dominated many machine learning areas, including spoken language understanding (SLU). However, deep learning models are notorious for being data-hungry, and the heavily optimized models are usually sensitive to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Shang-Wen Li , Jason Krone , Shuyan Dong , Yi Zhang , Yaser Al-onaizan

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

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

Many interpretable AI approaches have been proposed to provide plausible explanations for a model's decision-making. However, configuring an explainable model that effectively communicates among computational modules has received less…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jinyung Hong , Keun Hee Park , Theodore P. Pavlic

Building Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) robust to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) errors is an essential issue for various voice-enabled virtual assistants. Considering that most ASR errors are caused by phonetic confusion between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Zexun Wang , Yuquan Le , Yi Zhu , Yuming Zhao , Mingchao Feng , Meng Chen , Xiaodong He

Utterance-level intent detection and token-level slot filling are two key tasks for natural language understanding (NLU) in task-oriented systems. Most existing approaches assume that only a single intent exists in an utterance. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fengyu Cai , Wanhao Zhou , Fei Mi , Boi Faltings