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With the advent of conversational assistants, like Amazon Alexa, Google Now, etc., dialogue systems are gaining a lot of traction, especially in industrial setting. These systems typically consist of Spoken Language understanding component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Arshit Gupta , John Hewitt , Katrin Kirchhoff

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Decoding speaker's intent is a crucial part of spoken language understanding (SLU). The presence of noise or errors in the text transcriptions, in real life scenarios make the task more challenging. In this paper, we address the spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Mu Yang , Panayiotis Georgiou

Recent voice assistants are usually based on the cascade spoken language understanding (SLU) solution, which consists of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine and a natural language understanding (NLU) system. Because such approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Anderson R. Avila , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Chao Xing

The goal of spoken language understanding (SLU) systems is to determine the meaning of the input speech signal, unlike speech recognition which aims to produce verbatim transcripts. Advances in end-to-end (E2E) speech modeling have made it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Zoltan Tuske , Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) remains elusive even with current large pretrained language models on text and speech, especially in multilingual cases. Machine translation has been established as a powerful pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mutian He , Philip N. Garner

Building Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems that do not rely on language specific Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an important yet less explored problem in language processing. In this paper, we present a comparative study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hemant Yadav , Akshat Gupta , Sai Krishna Rallabandi , Alan W Black , Rajiv Ratn Shah

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) systems benefit from pretraining on large corpora, followed by fine-tuning on application-specific data. The resulting models are too large for on-edge applications. For instance, BERT-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Pu Wang , Hugo Van hamme

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels can greatly reduce the annotation cost and therefore has attracted considerable research interest. However, its performance is still inferior to the fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qi Yao , Xiaojin Gong

In the realm of spoken language understanding (SLU), numerous natural language understanding (NLU) methodologies have been adapted by supplying large language models (LLMs) with transcribed speech instead of conventional written text. In…

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), which aims to extract user semantics to execute downstream tasks, is a crucial component of task-oriented dialog systems. Existing SLU datasets generally lack sufficient diversity and complexity, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yuezhang Peng , Chonghao Cai , Ziang Liu , Shuai Fan , Sheng Jiang , Hua Xu , Yuxin Liu , Qiguang Chen , Kele Xu , Yao Li , Sheng Wang , Libo Qin , Xie Chen

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one essential step in building a dialogue system. Due to the expensive cost of obtaining the labeled data, SLU suffers from the data scarcity problem. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Haitao Lin , Lu Xiang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) systems avoid an intermediate textual representation by mapping speech directly into intents with slot values. This approach requires considerable domain-specific training data. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Pu Wang , Bagher BabaAli , Hugo Van hamme

Transformers have become foundational architectures for both natural language and computer vision tasks. However, the high computational cost makes it quite challenging to deploy on resource-constraint devices. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jialong Guo , Xinghao Chen , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

The lack of publicly available evaluation data for low-resource languages limits progress in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). As key tasks like intent classification and slot filling require abundant training data, it is desirable to…

Recent graph-based models for multi-intent SLU have obtained promising results through modeling the guidance from the prediction of intents to the decoding of slot filling. However, existing methods (1) only model the unidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Bowen Xing , Ivor W. Tsang

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a task aiming to extract high-level semantics from spoken utterances. Previous works have investigated the use of speech self-supervised models and textual pre-trained models, which have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jiatong Shi , Chan-Jan Hsu , Holam Chung , Dongji Gao , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Ann Lee , Hung-yi Lee

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a core component of conversational systems, enabling machines to interpret user utterances. Despite its importance, developing effective SLU systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yan Xie , Yibo Cui , Liang Xie , Erwei Yin

The Transformer architecture model, based on self-attention and multi-head attention, has achieved remarkable success in offline end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, self-attention and multi-head attention cannot be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Wen qi Wei , Xiaoyang Qu , Haoqian Wang , Jing Xiao

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are widely used in handling of customer-care calls.A traditional SLU system consists of an acoustic model (AM) and a language model (LM) that areused to decode the utterance and a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Shahab Jalalvand , Andrej Ljolje , Srinivas Bangalore