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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

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) consists of two sub-tasks: intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF). Given its broad range of real-world applications, enhancing SLU for practical deployment is increasingly critical. Profile-based SLU…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Di Wu , Liting Jiang , Ruiyu Fang , Bianjing , Hongyan Xie , Haoxiang Su , Hao Huang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Xuelong Li

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is the problem of extracting the meaning from speech utterances. It is typically addressed as a two-step problem, where an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model is employed to convert speech into text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Elisavet Palogiannidi , Ioannis Gkinis , George Mastrapas , Petr Mizera , Themos Stafylakis

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

Spoken language understanding (SLU) refers to the process of inferring the semantic information from audio signals. While the neural transformers consistently deliver the best performance among the state-of-the-art neural architectures in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Siegfried Kunzmann

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 detection and slot filling are two fundamental tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. Multiple deep learning-based joint models have demonstrated excellent results on the two tasks. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Pengfei Wei , Bi Zeng , Wenxiong Liao

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

Intent classification and slot-filling are essential tasks of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In most SLUsystems, those tasks are realized by independent modules. For about fifteen years, models achieving both of themjointly and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Nadège Alavoine , Gaëlle Laperriere , Christophe Servan , Sahar Ghannay , Sophie Rosset

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

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

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), a core component of the task-oriented dialogue system, expects a shorter inference latency due to the impatience of humans. Non-autoregressive SLU models clearly increase the inference speed but suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Lizhi Cheng , Weijia Jia , Wenmian Yang

The dependencies between system and user utterances in the same turn and across different turns are not fully considered in existing multidomain dialogue state tracking (MDST) models. In this study, we argue that the incorporation of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) has recently attracted increasing interest. Compared to the conventional tandem-based approach that combines speech recognition and language understanding as separate modules, the new approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Nihal Potdar , Anderson R. Avila , Chao Xing , Dong Wang , Yiran Cao , Xiao Chen

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 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

Slot Filling (SF) is one of the sub-tasks of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) which aims to extract semantic constituents from a given natural language utterance. It is formulated as a sequence labeling task. Recently, it has been shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Being able to recognize words as slots and detect the intent of an utterance has been a keen issue in natural language understanding. The existing works either treat slot filling and intent detection separately in a pipeline manner, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Chenwei Zhang , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Philip S. Yu

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a core task in task-oriented dialogue systems, which aims at understanding the user's current goal through constructing semantic frames. SLU usually consists of two subtasks, including intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xuxin Cheng , Wanshi Xu , Zhihong Zhu , Hongxiang Li , Yuexian Zou