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Different from traditional text-to-image retrieval tasks, chat-based image retrieval allows the human-interactive system to iteratively clarify and refine user intent through multi-round dialogue, thereby achieving more fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianke Chen , Daizong Liu , Yushuo Lou , Xin Tan , Xun Yang , Shuhui Wang , Xun Wang , Jianfeng Dong

Pre-trained Transformer-based models were reported to be robust in intent classification. In this work, we first point out the importance of in-domain out-of-scope detection in few-shot intent recognition tasks and then illustrate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianguo Zhang , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yao Wan , Zhiwei Liu , Ye Liu , Caiming Xiong , Philip S. Yu

Multi-intent spoken language understanding (SLU) involves two tasks: multiple intent detection and slot filling, which jointly handle utterances containing more than one intent. Owing to this characteristic, which closely reflects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Di Wu , Ruiyu Fang , Liting Jiang , Shuangyong Song , Xiaomeng Huang , Shiquan Wang , Zhongqiu Li , Lingling Shi , Mengjiao Bao , Yongxiang Li , Hao Huang

Fake news detection is an important and challenging task for defending online information integrity. Existing state-of-the-art approaches typically extract news semantic clues, such as writing patterns that include emotional words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhengjia Wang , Qiang Sheng , Danding Wang , Beizhe Hu , Juan Cao

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

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

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

We present WikiReading, a large-scale natural language understanding task and publicly-available dataset with 18 million instances. The task is to predict textual values from the structured knowledge base Wikidata by reading the text of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Llion Jones , Illia Polosukhin , Andrew Fandrianto , Jay Han , Matthew Kelcey , David Berthelot

Dialogue systems need to deal with the unpredictability of user intents to track dialogue state and the heterogeneity of slots to understand user preferences. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that solving these challenges as one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Diogo Tavares , Pedro Azevedo , David Semedo , Ricardo Sousa , João Magalhães

The ability of human beings to precisely recog- nize others intents is a significant mental activity in reasoning about actions, such as, what other people are doing and what they will do next. Recent research has revealed that human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiang Zhang

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have the potential to assist users in interacting with complex software (e.g., PowerPoint, Photoshop). While prior research has primarily focused on automating user actions through clicks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Saelyne Yang , Jaesang Yu , Yi-Hao Peng , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Jae Won Cho , Yale Song , Juho Kim

In this paper, we investigate few-shot joint learning for dialogue language understanding. Most existing few-shot models learn a single task each time with only a few examples. However, dialogue language understanding contains two closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yutai Hou , Yongkui Lai , Cheng Chen , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Out-of-scope (OOS) intent detection is a critical challenge in task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), as it ensures robustness to unseen and ambiguous queries. In this work, we propose a novel but simple modular framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Álvaro Zaera , Diana Nicoleta Popa , Ivan Sekulic , Paolo Rosso

In task-oriented dialogue systems, spoken language understanding (SLU) is a critical component, which consists of two sub-tasks, intent detection and slot filling. Most existing methods focus on the single-intent SLU, where each utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Liz Li , Wei Zhu

Data wrangling is a time-consuming and challenging task in a data science pipeline. While many tools have been proposed to automate or facilitate data wrangling, they often misinterpret user intent, especially in complex tasks. We propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wei-Hao Chen , Weixi Tong , Amanda Case , Tianyi Zhang

Recent joint intent detection and slot tagging models have seen improved performance when compared to individual models. In many real-world datasets, the slot labels and values have a strong correlation with their intent labels. In such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shruthi Hariharan , Vignesh Kumar Krishnamurthy , Utkarsh , Jayantha Gowda Sarapanahalli

Natural language understanding includes the tasks of intent detection (identifying a user's objectives) and slot filling (extracting the entities relevant to those objectives). Prior slot filling methods assume that each intent type cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Harshil Shah , Arthur Wilcke , Marius Cobzarenco , Cristi Cobzarenco , Edward Challis , David Barber

In multimodal assistant, where vision is also one of the input modalities, the identification of user intent becomes a challenging task as visual input can influence the outcome. Current digital assistants take spoken input and try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Alkesh Patel , Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , Roman Nguyen , Nick Tzou , Hadas Kotek , Vincent Renkens

Intelligence analysts face a difficult problem: distinguishing extremist rhetoric from potential extremist violence. Many are content to express abuse against some target group, but only a few indicate a willingness to engage in violence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 B. Simons , D. B. Skillicorn

Email remains one of the most frequently used means of online communication. People spend a significant amount of time every day on emails to exchange information, manage tasks and schedule events. Previous work has studied different ways…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Kai Shu , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Milad Shokouhi , Susan Dumais