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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

The rapidly growing market demand for automatic dialogue agents capable of goal-oriented behavior has caused many tech-industry leaders to invest considerable efforts into task-oriented dialog systems. The success of these systems is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ella Rabinovich , Matan Vetzler , David Boaz , Vineet Kumar , Gaurav Pandey , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Goal-oriented chatbots are essential for automating user tasks, such as booking flights or making restaurant reservations. A key component of these systems is Dialogue State Tracking (DST), which interprets user intent and maintains the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sejin Lee , Dongha Kim , Min Song

LLM-driven dialog systems are used in a diverse set of applications, ranging from healthcare to customer service. However, given their generalization capability, it is difficult to ensure that these chatbots stay within the boundaries of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Stuti Agrawal , Nishi Uppuluri , Pranav Pillai , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Zoey Li , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Heng Ji

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems, such as goal-oriented chatbots or personal assistants, rely on an initial natural language understanding (NLU) module to determine the intent and to extract the relevant information from the user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mladen Dimovski , Claudiu Musat , Vladimir Ilievski , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl

In conversational AI systems, a critical challenge in training effective multi-turn intent classification models lies in the generation of large-scale, domain-specific, multilingual dialogue datasets. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junhua Liu , Yong Keat Tan , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

Clustering performs an essential role in many real world applications, such as market research, pattern recognition, data analysis, and image processing. However, due to the high dimensionality of the input feature values, the data being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Si Lu , Ruisi Li

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

Intent understanding plays an important role in dialog systems, and is typically formulated as a supervised learning problem. However, it is challenging and time-consuming to design the intents for a new domain from scratch, which usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengfei Liu , Youzhang Ning , King Keung Wu , Kun Li , Helen Meng

We present a data segmentation method based on a first-order density-induced consensus protocol. We provide a mathematically rigorous analysis of the consensus model leading to the stopping criteria of the data segmentation algorithm. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Piotr Minakowski , Jan Peszek

Spoken language understanding (SLU) acts as a critical component in goal-oriented dialog systems. It typically involves identifying the speakers intent and extracting semantic slots from user utterances, which are known as intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mengyang Chen , Jin Zeng , Jie Lou

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an essential role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, user's input may contain implicit information, posing significant challenges for DST tasks. Additionally, DST data includes complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zihao Yi , Zhe Xu , Ying Shen

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are commonly designed with the presumption that each utterance represents a single intent. However, this assumption may not accurately reflect real-world situations, where users frequently express…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Yoon , Jungyeon Lee , Kangsan Kim , Chanhee Park , Taeuk Kim

Equipping robots with the ability to infer human intent is a vital precondition for effective collaboration. Most computational approaches towards this objective derive a probability distribution of "intent" conditioned on the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mark Zolotas , Yiannis Demiris

We present a clustering- and demotion-based algorithm called Kmeans-FOLD to induce nonmonotonic logic programs from positive and negative examples. Our algorithm improves upon-and is inspired by-the FOLD algorithm. The FOLD algorithm itself…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Huaduo Wang , Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically communicate with a backend (e.g. database, Web API) to complete certain tasks to reach a goal. The intents that a dialogue system can recognize are mostly included to the system by the developer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Umutcan Şimşek , Dieter Fensel

Information extraction and user intention identification are central topics in modern query understanding and recommendation systems. In this paper, we propose DeepProbe, a generic information-directed interaction framework which is built…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 Zi Yin , Keng-hao Chang , Ruofei Zhang

Any organization needs to improve their products, services, and processes. In this context, engaging with customers and understanding their journey is essential. Organizations have leveraged various techniques and technologies to support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Sahar Moradizeyveh

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in conversational AI, enabling open-domain responses in chat-bots, as well as advanced processing of conversations like summarization, intent classification, and insights…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Reem Gody , Mohamed Abdelghaffar , Mohammed Jabreel , Ahmed Tawfik

State of the art models in intent induction require annotated datasets. However, annotating dialogues is time-consuming, laborious and expensive. In this work, we propose a completely unsupervised framework for intent induction within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Rita Costa , Bruno Martins , Sérgio Viana , Luisa Coheur