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The sequential order of utterances is often meaningful in coherent dialogues, and the order changes of utterances could lead to low-quality and incoherent conversations. We consider the order information as a crucial supervised signal for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jiawei Wu , Xin Wang , William Yang Wang

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

Document interpretation and dialog understanding are the two major challenges for conversational machine reading. In this work, we propose Discern, a discourse-aware entailment reasoning network to strengthen the connection and enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yifan Gao , Chien-Sheng Wu , Jingjing Li , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi , Caiming Xiong , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

Dialogue agents, which perform specific tasks, are part of the long-term goal of NLP researchers to build intelligent agents that communicate with humans in natural language. Such systems should adapt easily from one domain to another to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jesse Atuhurra , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe , Eric Nichols

With the growing importance of customer service in contemporary business, recognizing the intents behind service dialogues has become essential for the strategic success of enterprises. However, the nature of dialogue data varies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Yuanfeng Song , Chen Jason Zhang

Intent discovery is a crucial task in natural language processing, and it is increasingly relevant for various of industrial applications. Identifying novel, unseen intents from user inputs remains one of the biggest challenges in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Daniele Comi , Dimitrios Christofidellis , Pier Francesco Piazza , Matteo Manica

Conversational systems have a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module. In this module, there is a task known as an intent classification that aims at identifying what a user is attempting to achieve from an utterance. Previous works use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jeanfranco D. Farfan-Escobedo , Julio C. Dos Reis

Dialogue policy learning for task-oriented dialogue systems has enjoyed great progress recently mostly through employing reinforcement learning methods. However, these approaches have become very sophisticated. It is time to re-evaluate it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ziming Li , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

Due to various and serious adverse impacts of spreading fake news, it is often known that only people with malicious intent would propagate fake news. However, it is not necessarily true based on social science studies. Distinguishing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zhen Guo , Qi Zhang , Xinwei An , Qisheng Zhang , Audun Jøsang , Lance M. Kaplan , Feng Chen , Dong H. Jeong , Jin-Hee Cho

New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Fei Long , Kai Gao

We present Conformal Intent Classification and Clarification (CICC), a framework for fast and accurate intent classification for task-oriented dialogue systems. The framework turns heuristic uncertainty scores of any intent classifier into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Floris den Hengst , Ralf Wolter , Patrick Altmeyer , Arda Kaygan

Detecting out-of-scope user utterances is essential for task-oriented dialogues and intent classification. Current methodologies face difficulties with the unpredictable distribution of outliers and often rely on assumptions about data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Hossam M. Zawbaa , Wael Rashwan , Sourav Dutta , Haytham Assem

The ability to detect Out-of-Domain (OOD) inputs has been a critical requirement in many real-world NLP applications. For example, intent classification in dialogue systems. The reason is that the inclusion of unsupported OOD inputs may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Iftitahu Ni'mah , Meng Fang , Vlado Menkovski , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Mental manipulation, the strategic use of language to covertly influence or exploit others, is a newly emerging task in computational social reasoning. Prior work has focused exclusively on textual conversations, overlooking how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Run Chen , Wen Liang , Ziwei Gong , Lin Ai , Julia Hirschberg

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

Task-oriented dialog(TOD) aims to assist users in achieving specific goals through multi-turn conversation. Recently, good results have been obtained based on large pre-trained models. However, the labeled-data scarcity hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zhitong Yang , Xing Ma , Anqi Liu , Zheyu Zhang

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Real-life applications, heavily relying on machine learning, such as dialog systems, demand out-of-domain detection methods. Intent classification models should be equipped with a mechanism to distinguish seen intents from unseen ones so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alexander Podolskiy , Dmitry Lipin , Andrey Bout , Ekaterina Artemova , Irina Piontkovskaya

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

Assistive robots can potentially improve the quality of life and personal independence of elderly people by supporting everyday life activities. To guarantee a safe and intuitive interaction between human and robot, human intentions need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Susanne Trick , Dorothea Koert , Jan Peters , Constantin Rothkopf