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Voice Assistants aim to fulfill user requests by choosing the best intent from multiple options generated by its Automated Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding sub-systems. However, voice assistants do not always produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Raviteja Anantha , Srinivas Chappidi , William Dawoodi

Understanding user intent is essential for effective planning in conversational assistants, particularly those powered by large language models (LLMs) coordinating multiple agents. However, real-world dialogues are often ambiguous,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kushan Mitra , Dan Zhang , Hannah Kim , Estevam Hruschka

Malicious developer intents in smart contracts constitute significant security threats to decentralized applications, leading to substantial economic losses. Prior work introduced SmartIntentNN, a deep learning model for detecting unsafe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Youwei Huang , Jianwen Li , Bin Hu , Sen Fang , Yao Li , Peng Yang

Predicting human intention is critical to facilitating safe and efficient human-robot collaboration (HRC). However, it is challenging to build data-driven models for human intention prediction. One major challenge is due to the diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu

Intent recognition is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems. However, for emerging domains and new services, it is difficult to accurately identify the key intent of a conversation due to time-consuming data annotation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Caiyuan Chu , Ya Li , Yifan Liu , Jia-Chen Gu , Quan Liu , Yongxin Ge , Guoping Hu

We introduce the dialog intent induction task and present a novel deep multi-view clustering approach to tackle the problem. Dialog intent induction aims at discovering user intents from user query utterances in human-human conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Hugh Perkins , Yi Yang

Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Biswarup Bhattacharya , Iftikhar Burhanuddin , Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Satya

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

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Intent detection with semantically similar fine-grained intents is a challenging task. To address it, we reformulate intent detection as a question-answering retrieval task by treating utterances and intent names as questions and answers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Asaf Yehudai , Matan Vetzler , Yosi Mass , Koren Lazar , Doron Cohen , Boaz Carmeli

The intentional creation and spread of disinformation poses a significant threat to public discourse. However, existing English datasets and research rarely address the intentionality behind the disinformation. This work presents MALINT,…

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

We present our work on Track 2 in the Dialog System Technology Challenges 11 (DSTC11). DSTC11-Track2 aims to provide a benchmark for zero-shot, cross-domain, intent-set induction. In the absence of in-domain training dataset, robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jihyun Lee , Seungyeon Seo , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae 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

Recent years witnessed several advances in developing multi-goal conversational recommender systems (MG-CRS) that can proactively attract users' interests and naturally lead user-engaged dialogues with multiple conversational goals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yang Deng , Wenxuan Zhang , Weiwen Xu , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua , Wai Lam

A key challenge of dialog systems research is to effectively and efficiently adapt to new domains. A scalable paradigm for adaptation necessitates the development of generalizable models that perform well in few-shot settings. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Shikib Mehri , Mihail Eric

Multi-behavioral sequential recommendation has recently attracted increasing attention. However, existing methods suffer from two major limitations. Firstly, user preferences and intents can be described in fine-grained detail from multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Haobing Liu , Jianyu Ding , Yanmin Zhu , Feilong Tang , Jiadi Yu , Ruobing Jiang , Zhongwen Guo

Understanding the intent behind information is crucial. However, news as a medium of public discourse still lacks a structured investigation of perceived news intent and its application. To advance this field, this paper reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhengjia Wang , Danding Wang , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Siyuan Ma , Haonan Cheng

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

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