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Open intent detection, a crucial aspect of natural language understanding, involves the identification of previously unseen intents in user-generated text. Despite the progress made in this field, challenges persist in handling new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yihao Fang , Xianzhi Li , Stephen W. Thomas , Xiaodan Zhu

This paper presents a generic Bayesian framework that enables any deep learning model to actively learn from targeted crowds. Our framework inherits from recent advances in Bayesian deep learning, and extends existing work by considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jie Yang , Thomas Drake , Andreas Damianou , Yoelle Maarek

Intent modelling has become an important part of modern dialogue systems. With the rapid expansion of practical dialogue systems and virtual assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant, the interest has only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sindre André Jacobsen , Anton Ragni

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 propose a new method to detect when users express the intent to leave a service, also known as churn. While previous work focuses solely on social media, we show that this intent can be detected in chatbot conversations. As companies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Christian Abbet , Meryem M'hamdi , Athanasios Giannakopoulos , Robert West , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl , Claudiu Musat

Spoken intent detection has become a popular approach to interface with various smart devices with ease. However, such systems are limited to the preset list of intents-terms or commands, which restricts the quick customization of personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ashish Mittal , Samarth Bharadwaj , Shreya Khare , Saneem Chemmengath , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Brian Kingsbury

Answer selection in open-domain dialogues aims to select an accurate answer from candidates. Recent success of answer selection models hinges on training with large amounts of labeled data. However, collecting large-scale labeled data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wentao Deng , Jiahuan Pei , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

In this paper, we introduce Auto-Intent, a method to adapt a pre-trained large language model (LLM) as an agent for a target domain without direct fine-tuning, where we empirically focus on web navigation tasks. Our approach first discovers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jaekyeom Kim , Dong-Ki Kim , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Sungryull Sohn , Honglak Lee

The study illustrates a first step towards an ongoing work aimed at developing a dataset of dialogues potentially useful for customer service conversation management between humans and AI chatbots. The approach exploits ChatGPT 3.5 to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Giovanni Pilato , Pablo Garcia Bringas

With the maturity and popularity of dialogue systems, detecting user's unknown intent in dialogue systems has become an important task. It is also one of the most challenging tasks since we can hardly get examples, prior knowledge or the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ting-En Lin , Hua Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) and chatbots show significant promise in streamlining the legal intake process. This advancement can greatly reduce the workload and costs for legal aid organizations, improving availability while making legal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Nick Goodson , Rongfei Lu

This paper investigates the effectiveness of pre-training for few-shot intent classification. While existing paradigms commonly further pre-train language models such as BERT on a vast amount of unlabeled corpus, we find it highly effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haode Zhang , Yuwei Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Jiaxin Chen , Guangyuan Shi , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Question-answering systems and voice assistants are becoming major part of client service departments of many organizations, helping them to reduce the labor costs of staff. In many such systems, there is always natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Aleksandr Perevalov , Daniil Kurushin , Rustam Faizrakhmanov , Farida Khabibrakhmanova

Accurate multi-turn intent classification is essential for advancing conversational AI systems. However, challenges such as the scarcity of comprehensive datasets and the complexity of contextual dependencies across dialogue turns hinder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Junhua Liu , Yong Keat Tan , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

We propose a novel methodology to address dialog learning in the context of goal-oriented conversational systems. The key idea is to quantize the dialog space into clusters and create a language model across the clusters, thus allowing for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 R. Chulaka Gunasekara , David Nahamoo , Lazaros C. Polymenakos , Jatin Ganhotra , Kshitij P. Fadnis

If 100 people issue the same search query, they may have 100 different goals. While existing work on user-centric AI evaluation highlights the importance of aligning systems with fine-grained user intents, current search evaluation methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yoonseo Choi , Eunhye Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Donghyun Park , Honggu Lee , Jinyoung Kim , Juho Kim

Intent-based recommender systems have garnered significant attention for uncovering latent fine-grained preferences. Intents, as underlying factors of interactions, are crucial for improving recommendation interpretability. Most methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Wang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

Current AI interaction models treat the prompt as the primary object of exchange, omitting a critical layer: the user's latent source intent, the goal state preceding and motivating the prompt. Here we introduce Intent Signal Theory (IST),…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gang Peng

This paper presents a comprehensive chatbot system designed to handle a wide range of audio-related queries by integrating multiple specialized audio processing models. The proposed system uses an intent classifier, trained on a diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Vakada Naveen , Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

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