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Identifying the unknown (novel) user intents that have never appeared in the training set is a challenging task in the dialogue system. In this paper, we present a two-stage method for detecting unknown intents. We use bidirectional long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ting-En Lin , Hua Xu

In intent detection tasks, leveraging meaningful semantic information from intent labels can be particularly beneficial for few-shot scenarios. However, existing few-shot intent detection methods either ignore the intent labels, (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Jiangshu Du , Congying Xia , Wenpeng Yin , Tingting Liang , Philip S. Yu

We consider the task of few-shot intent detection, which involves training a deep learning model to classify utterances based on their underlying intents using only a small amount of labeled data. The current approach to address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haode Zhang , Haowen Liang , Liming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Story generation, namely generating a reasonable story from a leading context, is an important but challenging task. In spite of the success in modeling fluency and local coherence, existing neural language generation models (e.g., GPT-2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jian Guan , Fei Huang , Zhihao Zhao , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Understanding user intents from UI interaction trajectories remains a challenging, yet crucial, frontier in intelligent agent development. While massive, datacenter-based, multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) possess greater capacity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Danielle Cohen , Yoni Halpern , Noam Kahlon , Joel Oren , Omri Berkovitch , Sapir Caduri , Ido Dagan , Anatoly Efros

User queries for a real-world dialog system may sometimes fall outside the scope of the system's capabilities, but appropriate system responses will enable smooth processing throughout the human-computer interaction. This paper is concerned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengfei Liu , Kun Li , Helen Meng

Data drift is the change in model input data that is one of the key factors leading to machine learning models performance degradation over time. Monitoring drift helps detecting these issues and preventing their harmful consequences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ella Rabinovich , Matan Vetzler , Samuel Ackerman , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

We propose TRACIE, a novel temporal reasoning dataset that evaluates the degree to which systems understand implicit events -- events that are not mentioned explicitly in natural language text but can be inferred from it. This introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ben Zhou , Kyle Richardson , Qiang Ning , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Dan Roth

Multimodal intent understanding is a significant research area that requires effective leveraging of multiple modalities to analyze human language. Existing methods face two main challenges in this domain. Firstly, they have limitations in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hanlei Zhang , Qianrui Zhou , Hua Xu , Jianhua Su , Roberto Evans , Kai Gao

This paper focuses on wake on intent (WOI) techniques for platforms with limited compute and memory. Our approach of utterance-level intent classification is based on a sequence of keywords in the utterance instead of a single fixed key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Wenda Chen , Jonathan Huang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

In the realm of task-oriented dialogue systems, a robust intent detection mechanism must effectively handle malformed utterances encountered in real-world scenarios. This study presents a novel fine-tuning framework for large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Bo Liu , Liming Zhan , Yujie Feng , Zexin Lu , Chengqiang Xie , Lei Xue , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) simplifies network management, but its reliability is challenged by "intent drift", where the network's state gradually deviates from its intended goal, often leading to silent failures. Conventional approaches…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Md. Kamrul Hossain , Walid Aljoby

Natural language understanding typically maps single utterances to a dual level semantic frame, sentence level intent and slot labels at the word level. The best performing models force explicit interaction between intent detection and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Henry Weld , Sijia Hu , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Commonsense reasoning is intuitive for humans but has been a long-term challenge for artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advancements in pretrained language models have shown promising results on several commonsense benchmark datasets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Shikhar Singh , Nuan Wen , Yu Hou , Pegah Alipoormolabashi , Te-Lin Wu , Xuezhe Ma , Nanyun Peng

This paper focuses on how to take advantage of external relational knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension (MRC) with multi-task learning. Most of the traditional methods in MRC assume that the knowledge used to get the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Language identification (LID) recognizes the language of a spoken utterance automatically. According to recent studies, LID models trained with an automatic speech recognition (ASR) task perform better than those trained with a LID task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-17 Jinseok Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Jihwan Park , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Shukjae Choi , Yunkyu Lim

The rapid expansion of memes on social media has highlighted the urgent need for effective approaches to detect harmful content. However, traditional data-driven approaches struggle to detect new memes due to their evolving nature and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ziyan Liu , Chunxiao Fan , Haoran Lou , Yuexin Wu , Kaiwei Deng

Multimodal intent recognition poses significant challenges, requiring the incorporation of non-verbal modalities from real-world contexts to enhance the comprehension of human intentions. Existing benchmark datasets are limited in scale and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Hanlei Zhang , Xin Wang , Hua Xu , Qianrui Zhou , Kai Gao , Jianhua Su , jinyue Zhao , Wenrui Li , Yanting Chen

Systems like Voice-command based conversational agents are characterized by a pre-defined set of skills or intents to perform user specified tasks. In the course of time, newer intents may emerge requiring retraining. However, the newer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Intent detection is a critical component of task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS) which enables the identification of suitable actions to address user utterances at each dialog turn. Traditional approaches relied on computationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Gaurav Arora , Shreya Jain , Srujana Merugu