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There are several dialog frameworks which allow manual specification of intents and rule based dialog flow. The rule based framework provides good control to dialog designers at the expense of being more time consuming and laborious. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Dhiraj Madan , Sachindra Joshi

Multi-intent detection papers usually ask whether a model can recover multiple intents from one utterance. We ask a harder and, for deployment, more useful question: can it recover new combinations of familiar intents? Existing benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Abhilash Nandy

Intent detection is a key part of any Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system of a conversational assistant. Detecting the correct intent is essential yet difficult for email conversations where multiple directives and intents are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Soham Deshmukh , Charles Lee

Utterance-level intent detection and token-level slot filling are two key tasks for natural language understanding (NLU) in task-oriented systems. Most existing approaches assume that only a single intent exists in an utterance. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fengyu Cai , Wanhao Zhou , Fei Mi , Boi Faltings

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

Intent Detection is one of the core tasks of dialog systems. Few-shot Intent Detection is challenging due to limited number of annotated utterances for novel classes. Generalized Few-shot intent detection is more realistic but challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ayush Kumar , Vijit Malik , Jithendra Vepa

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

Multi-modal intent detection aims to utilize various modalities to understand the user's intentions, which is essential for the deployment of dialogue systems in real-world scenarios. The two core challenges for multi-modal intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shijue Huang , Libo Qin , Bingbing Wang , Geng Tu , Ruifeng Xu

Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding has great potential for widespread implementation. Jointly modeling Intent Detection and Slot Filling in it provides a channel to exploit the correlation between intents and slots. However, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Feifan Song , Lianzhe Huang , Houfeng Wang

Deriving value from a conversational AI system depends on the capacity of a user to translate the prior knowledge into a configuration. In most cases, discovering the set of relevant turn-level speaker intents is often one of the key steps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mrinal Rawat , Hithesh Sankararaman , Victor Barres

This paper proposes an intent-aware multi-agent planning framework as well as a learning algorithm. Under this framework, an agent plans in the goal space to maximize the expected utility. The planning process takes the belief of other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu

Intent Detection systems in the real world are exposed to complexities of imbalanced datasets containing varying perception of intent, unintended correlations and domain-specific aberrations. To facilitate benchmarking which can reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Gaurav Arora , Chirag Jain , Manas Chaturvedi , Krupal Modi

Modern task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM) agents, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and long-context capabilities for long-term memory utilization. However, these methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yiming Du , Bingbing Wang , Yang He , Bin Liang , Baojun Wang , Zhongyang Li , Lin Gui , Jeff Z. Pan , Ruifeng Xu , Kam-Fai Wong

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

New Intent Discovery (NID) aims at detecting known and previously undefined categories of user intent by utilizing limited labeled and massive unlabeled data. Most prior works often operate under the unrealistic assumption that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shun Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Ying Mo , Jiaqi Bai , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li

Understanding human intent in complex multi-turn interactions remains a fundamental challenge in human-computer interaction and behavioral analysis. While existing intent recognition datasets focus mainly on single utterances or simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shufang Lin , Muyang Chen , Xiabing Zhou , Rongrong Zhang , Dayou Zhang , Fangxin Wang

Multimodal intent recognition is a significant task for understanding human language in real-world multimodal scenes. Most existing intent recognition methods have limitations in leveraging the multimodal information due to the restrictions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Qianrui Zhou , Shaojie Zhao , Jiayan Teng

We study budget-constrained tool-augmented agents, where a large language model must solve multi-step tasks by invoking external tools under a strict monetary budget. We formalize this setting as sequential decision making in context space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hanbing Liu , Chunhao Tian , Nan An , Ziyuan Wang , Pinyan Lu , Changyuan Yu , Qi Qi

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

Intent classification and slot filling are two critical tasks for natural language understanding. Traditionally the two tasks have been deemed to proceed independently. However, more recently, joint models for intent classification and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 H. Weld , X. Huang , S. Long , J. Poon , S. C. Han