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Recognizing customer intent accurately with language models based on customer-agent conversational data is essential in today's digital customer service marketplace, but it is often hindered by the lack of sufficient labeled data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyu Luo , Peng Liu , Stefan Esping

The past ten years have witnessed the rapid development of text-based intent detection, whose benchmark performances have already been taken to a remarkable level by deep learning techniques. However, automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Peilin Zhou , Dading Chong , Helin Wang , Qingcheng Zeng

Intent discovery is the task of inferring latent intents from a set of unlabeled utterances, and is a useful step towards the efficient creation of new conversational agents. We show that recent competitive methods in intent discovery can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Maarten De Raedt , Fréderic Godin , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

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

Automated annotation of pedagogical dialogue is a high-stakes task where LLMs often fail without sufficient domain grounding. We present a domain-adapted RAG pipeline for tutoring move annotation. Rather than fine-tuning the generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jinsook Lee , Kirk Vanacore , Zhuqian Zhou , Bakhtawar Ahtisham , Rene F. Kizilcec

Labelling of user's utterances to understanding his attends which called Dialogue Act (DA) classification, it is considered the key player for dialogue language understanding layer in automatic dialogue systems. In this paper, we proposed a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Abdelrahim A Elmadany , Sherif M Abdou , Mervat Gheith

Slot filling and intent detection are two highly correlated tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU). Recent SLU research attempts to explore zero-shot prompting techniques in large language models to alleviate the data scarcity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Libo Qin , Fuxuan Wei , Qiguang Chen , Jingxuan Zhou , Shijue Huang , Jiasheng Si , Wenpeng Lu , Wanxiang Che

Many conversational agents in the market today follow a standard bot development framework which requires training intent classifiers to recognize user input. The need to create a proper set of training examples is often the bottleneck in…

Transformer-based pretrained language models (PLMs) offer unmatched performance across the majority of natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, including a body of question answering (QA) tasks. We hypothesize that improvements in QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Gabor Fuisz , Ivan Vulić , Samuel Gibbons , Inigo Casanueva , Paweł Budzianowski

Profile-based intent detection and slot filling are important tasks aimed at reducing the ambiguity in user utterances by leveraging user-specific supporting profile information. However, research in these two tasks has not been extensively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Thinh Pham , Dat Quoc Nguyen

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

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

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

Identifying user intents in information-seeking dialogs is crucial for a system to meet user's information needs. Intent prediction (IP) is challenging and demands sufficient dialogs with human-labeled intents for training. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Arian Askari , Roxana Petcu , Chuan Meng , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Amin Abolghasemi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Suzan Verberne

In high-conflict mixed-traffic scenarios involving human-driven and autonomous vehicles, most existing autonomous driving systems default to overly conservative behaviors, lack proactive interaction, and consequently suffer from limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xinwei Dong , Jiyang Li , Jiabin Xie , Yang Yi , Tianshang Jia , Shiyu Fang , Ye Tian , Peng Hang

Recurrent neural network (RNN) based joint intent classification and slot tagging models have achieved tremendous success in recent years for building spoken language understanding and dialog systems. However, these models suffer from poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

In traditional audio captioning methods, a model is usually trained in a fully supervised manner using a human-annotated dataset containing audio-text pairs and then evaluated on the test sets from the same dataset. Such methods have two…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yiming Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Ruoyi Du , Haohe Liu , Yuan Dong , Zheng-Hua Tan , Wenwu Wang , Zhanyu Ma

Reward-driven proactive dialogue agents require precise estimation of user satisfaction as an intrinsic reward signal to determine optimal interaction strategies. Specifically, this framework triggers clarification questions when detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wei Shen , Xiaonan He , Chuheng Zhang , Xuyun Zhang , Xiaolong Xu , Wanchun Dou

Zero-shot slot filling is a well-established subtask of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). However, most existing methods primarily focus on single-turn text data, overlooking the unique complexities of conversational dialogue.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mansi Rana , Kadri Hacioglu , Sindhuja Gopalan , Maragathamani Boothalingam

Citations in scientific papers not only help us trace the intellectual lineage but also are a useful indicator of the scientific significance of the work. Citation intents prove beneficial as they specify the role of the citation in a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Avishek Lahiri , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Imon Mukherjee