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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

Modeling domain intent within an evolving domain structure presents a significant challenge for domain-specific conversational recommendation systems (CRS). The conventional approach involves training an intent model using utterance-intent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Safikureshi Mondal , Subhasis Dasgupta , Amarnath Gupta

Automatically and accurately identifying user intents and filling the associated slots from their spoken language are critical to the success of dialogue systems. Traditional methods require manually defining the DOMAIN-INTENT-SLOT schema…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Zengfeng Zeng , Dan Ma , Haiqin Yang , Zhen Gou , Jianping Shen

Answer selection in open-domain dialogues aims to select an accurate answer from candidates. Recent success of answer selection models hinges on training with large amounts of labeled data. However, collecting large-scale labeled data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wentao Deng , Jiahuan Pei , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural language can be easily ambiguous and hence such a direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaustubh D. Dhole

New intent discovery is a crucial capability for task-oriented dialogue systems. Existing methods focus on transferring in-domain (IND) prior knowledge to out-of-domain (OOD) data through pre-training and clustering stages. They either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yimin Deng , Yuxia Wu , Guoshuai Zhao , Li Zhu , Xueming Qian

User intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems. Most previous works treat intent detection as a classification problem where utterances are labeled with predefined intents. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

Open intent classification is a practical yet challenging task in dialogue systems. Its objective is to accurately classify samples of known intents while at the same time detecting those of open (unknown) intents. Existing methods usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zifeng Cheng , Zhiwei Jiang , Yafeng Yin , Cong Wang , Qing Gu

Traditional intent classification models are based on a pre-defined intent set and only recognize limited in-domain (IND) intent classes. But users may input out-of-domain (OOD) queries in a practical dialogue system. Such OOD queries can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Yanan Wu , Pei Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

Open intent classification, which aims to correctly classify the known intents into their corresponding classes while identifying the new unknown (open) intents, is an essential but challenging task in dialogue systems. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Xiaokang Liu , Jianquan Li , Jingjing Mu , Min Yang , Ruifeng Xu , Benyou Wang

While unsupervised domain adaptation methods based on deep architectures have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks, they rely on a strong assumption, i.e. labeled source data must be available. In this work we overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci

Dialogue intent classification aims to identify the underlying purpose or intent of a user's input in a conversation. Current intent classification systems encounter considerable challenges, primarily due to the vast number of possible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gyutae Park , Ingeol Baek , ByeongJeong Kim , Joongbo Shin , Hwanhee Lee

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

Identifying new user intents is an essential task in the dialogue system. However, it is hard to get satisfying clustering results since the definition of intents is strongly guided by prior knowledge. Existing methods incorporate prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ting-En Lin , Hua Xu , Hanlei Zhang

For companies with customer service, mapping intents inside their conversational data is crucial in building applications based on natural language understanding (NLU). Nevertheless, there is no established automated technique to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Mia Taige Li , Hadi Abdi Ghavidel

In today's digitally driven world, dialogue systems play a pivotal role in enhancing user interactions, from customer service to virtual assistants. In these dialogues, it is important to identify user's goals automatically to resolve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Juan A. Rodriguez , Nicholas Botzer , David Vazquez , Christopher Pal , Marco Pedersoli , Issam Laradji

New intent discovery (NID) seeks to recognize both new and known intents from unlabeled user utterances, which finds prevalent use in practical dialogue systems. Existing works towards NID mainly adopt a cascaded architecture, wherein the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hongtao Wang , Renchi Yang , Wenqing Lin

We look at the long-standing problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like segments and clustering these into a lexicon. Several previous methods use a scoring model coupled with dynamic programming to find an optimal segmentation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Simon Malan , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

We present a novel clustering objective that learns a neural network classifier from scratch, given only unlabelled data samples. The model discovers clusters that accurately match semantic classes, achieving state-of-the-art results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Xu Ji , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Mining the latent intentions from large volumes of natural language inputs is a key step to help data analysts design and refine Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) for customer service. To aid data analysts in this task we present Verint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Xinyu Chen , Ian Beaver