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Building the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) modules of task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) involves a definition of intents and entities, collection of task-relevant data, annotating the data with intents and entities, and…

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Natural language processing (NLP) aims at investigating the interactions between agents and humans, processing and analyzing large amounts of natural language data. Large-scale language models play an important role in current natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Kebing Jin , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Natural language understanding (NLU) has two core tasks: intent classification and slot filling. The success of pre-training language models resulted in a significant breakthrough in the two tasks. One of the promising solutions called BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yu Guo , Zhilong Xie , Xingyan Chen , Huangen Chen , Leilei Wang , Huaming Du , Shaopeng Wei , Yu Zhao , Qing Li , Gang Wu

It is expensive and difficult to obtain the large number of sentence-level intent and token-level slot label annotations required to train neural network (NN)-based Natural Language Understanding (NLU) components of task-oriented dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Rashmi Gangadharaiah , Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks in natural language understanding (NLU) for identifying users' needs from their utterances. These two tasks are highly related and often trained jointly. However, most previous works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Lisong Chen , Peilin Zhou , Yuexian Zou

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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Huichun Li , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in conversational systems that predict the next system actions in response to a current user utterance. Conventional approaches aggregate separate models of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Xuesong Yang , Yun-Nung Chen , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Paul Crook , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-task learning of language understanding (LU) and dialogue state tracking (DST) in task-oriented dialogue systems. Multi-task training enables the sharing of the neural network layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Abhinav Rastogi , Raghav Gupta , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Recent advances in Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have led to great progress in speech understanding tasks such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, whether these models can…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Peiji Yang , Yicheng Zhong , Jianxing Yu , Zhisheng Wang , Zihao Gou , Wenqing Chen , Jian Yin

Intent detection and slot filling are two fundamental tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. Multiple deep learning-based joint models have demonstrated excellent results on the two tasks. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Pengfei Wei , Bi Zeng , Wenxiong Liao

Natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) are two fundamental and related tasks in building task-oriented dialogue systems with opposite objectives: NLU tackles the transformation from natural language to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Jianpeng Cheng , Yimai Fang , David Vandyke

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

Spoken language understanding (SLU) typically includes two subtasks: intent detection and slot filling. Currently, it has achieved great success in high-resource languages, but it still remains challenging in low-resource languages due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Tianjun Mao , Chenghong Zhang

Recent advanced methods in Natural Language Understanding for Task-oriented Dialogue (TOD) Systems (e.g., intent detection and slot filling) require a large amount of annotated data to achieve competitive performance. In reality,…

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In recent years, fostered by deep learning technologies and by the high demand for conversational AI, various approaches have been proposed that address the capacity to elicit and understand user's needs in task-oriented dialogue systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Samuel Louvan , Bernardo Magnini

In the constant updates of the product dialogue systems, we need to retrain the natural language understanding (NLU) model as new data from the real users would be merged into the existent data accumulated in the last updates. Within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zefan Cai , Xin Zheng , Tianyu Liu , Xu Wang , Haoran Meng , Jiaqi Han , Gang Yuan , Binghuai Lin , Baobao Chang , Yunbo Cao

Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps empower intelligent machines by enhancing a better understanding of the human language for linguistic-based human-computer communication. Recent developments in computational power and the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Yaser Keneshloo , Nader Tavaf , Edward A. Fox

Learning intents and slot labels from user utterances is a fundamental step in all spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialog systems. State-of-the-art neural network based methods, after deployment, often suffer from performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

A spoken language understanding (SLU) system includes two main tasks, slot filling (SF) and intent detection (ID). The joint model for the two tasks is becoming a tendency in SLU. But the bi-directional interrelated connections between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Haihong E , Peiqing Niu , Zhongfu Chen , Meina Song

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding(SLU) system. Multiple deep learning based models have demonstrated good results on these tasks . The most effective algorithms are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yu Wang , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin