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Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a key component of goal oriented dialogue systems that would parse user utterances into semantic frame representations. Traditionally SLU does not utilize the dialogue history beyond the previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ankur Bapna , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding, or SLU, refers to the task of parsing natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Making use of context from prior dialogue history holds the key to more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Raghav Gupta , Abhinav Rastogi , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is important in today's technology as it enables machines to comprehend and process human language, leading to improved human-computer interactions and advancements in fields such as virtual assistants,…

Intent Recognition and Slot Identification are crucial components in spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards both these tasks in the context of low resourced and unwritten languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Akshat Gupta , Olivia Deng , Akruti Kushwaha , Saloni Mittal , William Zeng , Sai Krishna Rallabandi , Alan W Black

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable learning systems to acquire new knowledge constantly without forgetting previously learned information. CL faces the challenge of mitigating catastrophic forgetting while maintaining interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Yu , Haoyu Han , Zhe Tao , Hantao Yao , Changsheng Xu

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is composed of two subtasks: intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF). There are two lines of research on SLU. One jointly tackles these two subtasks to improve their prediction accuracy, and the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Linhao Zhang , Yu Shi , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Houfeng Wang , Michael Zeng

This work investigates spoken language understanding (SLU) systems in the scenario when the semantic information is extracted directly from the speech signal by means of a single end-to-end neural network model. Two SLU tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Natalia Tomashenko , Antoine Caubriere , Yannick Esteve , Antoine Laurent , Emmanuel Morin

Natural language understanding (NLU) has two core tasks: intent classification and slot filling. The success of pre-training language models resulted in a significant breakthrough in the two tasks. One of the promising solutions called BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yu Guo , Zhilong Xie , Xingyan Chen , Huangen Chen , Leilei Wang , Huaming Du , Shaopeng Wei , Yu Zhao , Qing Li , Gang Wu

In recent years, fostered by deep learning technologies and by the high demand for conversational AI, various approaches have been proposed that address the capacity to elicit and understand user's needs in task-oriented dialogue systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Samuel Louvan , Bernardo Magnini

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) has progressed from traditional single-task methods to large audio language model (LALM) solutions. Yet, most existing speech benchmarks focus on single-speaker or isolated tasks, overlooking the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Shuai Wang , Zhaokai Sun , Zhennan Lin , Chengyou Wang , Zhou Pan , Lei Xie

Learning intents and slot labels from user utterances is a fundamental step in all spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialog systems. State-of-the-art neural network based methods, after deployment, often suffer from performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) models are a core component of voice assistants (VA), such as Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline designed to extend SLU systems to new languages, utilizing Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Pawel Pawlowski , Marcin Skorupa , Marcin Sowański , Artur Janicki

Recently, multi-task spoken language understanding (SLU) models have emerged, designed to address various speech processing tasks. However, these models often rely on a large number of parameters. Also, they often encounter difficulties in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Hayato Futami , Siddhant Arora , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Shinji Watanabe

Conversational multimodal understanding aims to infer the meaning or label of the current utterance from its preceding dialogue context together with textual, acoustic, and visual signals. Existing methods mainly strengthen contextual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhaoyan Pan , Hengyang Zhou , Xiangdong Li , Yuning Wang , Ye Lou , Jiatong Pan , Ji Zhou , Wei Zhang

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

Slot filling and intent detection are two highly correlated tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU). Recent SLU research attempts to explore zero-shot prompting techniques in large language models to alleviate the data scarcity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Libo Qin , Fuxuan Wei , Qiguang Chen , Jingxuan Zhou , Shijue Huang , Jiasheng Si , Wenpeng Lu , Wanxiang Che

Despite the success of convolution- and attention-based models in vision tasks, their rigid receptive fields and complex architectures limit their ability to model irregular spatial patterns and hinder interpretability, therefore posing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xiangshuai Song , Jun-Jie Huang , Tianrui Liu , Ke Liang , Chang Tang

Intent classification and slot filling are two critical tasks for natural language understanding. Traditionally the two tasks have been deemed to proceed independently. However, more recently, joint models for intent classification and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 H. Weld , X. Huang , S. Long , J. Poon , S. C. Han

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) 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