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In the last year, new models and methods for pretraining and transfer learning have driven striking performance improvements across a range of language understanding tasks. The GLUE benchmark, introduced a little over one year ago, offers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Alex Wang , Yada Pruksachatkun , Nikita Nangia , Amanpreet Singh , Julian Michael , Felix Hill , Omer Levy , Samuel R. Bowman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in various downstream tasks, inspiring the development of Speech Understanding Language Models (SULMs) to enable comprehensive speech-based interactions. However, most advanced…

Spoken language understanding (SLU), which is a core component of the task-oriented dialogue system, has made substantial progress in the research of single-turn dialogue. However, the performance in multi-turn dialogue is still not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lizhi Cheng , Weijia Jia , Wenmian Yang

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are widely used in handling of customer-care calls.A traditional SLU system consists of an acoustic model (AM) and a language model (LM) that areused to decode the utterance and a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Shahab Jalalvand , Andrej Ljolje , Srinivas Bangalore

Much recent work on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is limited in at least one of three ways: models were trained on oracle text input and neglected ASR errors, models were trained to predict only intents without the slot values, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Cheng-I Lai , Yung-Sung Chuang , Hung-Yi Lee , Shang-Wen Li , James Glass

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a branch of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that uses intelligent computer software to understand texts that encode human knowledge. Recent years have witnessed notable progress across various NLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xinliang Frederick Zhang

End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is proposed to infer the semantic meaning directly from audio features without intermediate text representation. Although the acoustic model component of an end-to-end SLU system can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Pengwei Wang , Liangchen Wei , Yong Cao , Jinghui Xie , Yuji Cao , Zaiqing Nie

Building Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) robust to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) errors is an essential issue for various voice-enabled virtual assistants. Considering that most ASR errors are caused by phonetic confusion between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Zexun Wang , Yuquan Le , Yi Zhu , Yuming Zhao , Mingchao Feng , Meng Chen , Xiaodong He

Recently there have been efforts to introduce new benchmark tasks for spoken language understanding (SLU), like semantic parsing. In this paper, we describe our proposed spoken semantic parsing system for the quality track (Track 1) in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Siddhant Arora , Hayato Futami , Shih-Lun Wu , Jessica Huynh , Yifan Peng , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

The scarcity of labeled training data often prohibits the internationalization of NLP models to multiple languages. Recent developments in cross-lingual understanding (XLU) has made progress in this area, trying to bridge the language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Guokun Lai , Barlas Oguz , Yiming Yang , Veselin Stoyanov

Spoken language recognition (SLR) is the task of automatically identifying the language present in a speech signal. Existing SLR models are either too computationally expensive or too large to run effectively on devices with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin , Franck Dernoncourt , Justin Salamon

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are gaining popularity over cascaded approaches due to their simplicity and ability to avoid error propagation. However, these systems model sequence labeling as a sequence prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Siddhant Arora , Siddharth Dalmia , Brian Yan , Florian Metze , Alan W Black , Shinji Watanabe

Dialogue summarization aims to provide a concise and coherent summary of conversations between multiple speakers. While recent advancements in language models have enhanced this process, summarizing dialogues accurately and faithfully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Eunice Akani , Benoit Favre , Frederic Bechet , Romain Gemignani

Speech language models have recently demonstrated great potential as universal speech processing systems. Such models have the ability to model the rich acoustic information existing in audio signals, beyond spoken content, such as emotion,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Gallil Maimon , Amit Roth , Yossi Adi

Speech understanding is essential for interpreting the diverse forms of information embedded in spoken language, including linguistic, paralinguistic, and non-linguistic cues that are vital for effective human-computer interaction. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Jing Peng , Yucheng Wang , Bohan Li , Yiwei Guo , Hankun Wang , Yangui Fang , Yu Xi , Haoyu Li , Xu Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu

Recent advancements in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) have been driven by large-scale end-to-end models like Whisper. However, challenges such as language interference and expanding to unseen languages (language expansion)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hongli Yang , Sheng Li , Hao Huang , Ayiduosi Tuohan , Yizhou Peng

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

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

We present M3-SLU, a new multimodal large language model (MLLM) benchmark for evaluating multi-speaker, multi-turn spoken language understanding. While recent models show strong performance in speech and text comprehension, they still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yejin Kwon , Taewoo Kang , Hyunsoo Yoon , Changouk Kim

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu