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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) refer to the most common inquiries about specific content. They serve as content comprehension aids by simplifying topics and enhancing understanding through succinct presentation of information. In this…

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Banking call centers receive millions of calls annually, with much of the information in these calls unavailable to analysts interested in tracking new and emerging call center trends. In this study we present an approach to call center…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 John Xi Qiu , Adam Faulkner , Aysu Ezen Can

Intent classification is an important component of a functional Information Retrieval ecosystem. Many current approaches to intent classification, typically framed as a classification problem, can be problematic as intents are often hard to…

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In pursuit of reinforcement learning systems that could train in physical environments, we investigate multi-task approaches as a means to alleviate the need for massive data acquisition. In a tabular scenario where the Q-functions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sergio Rozada , Santiago Paternain , Juan Andres Bazerque , Antonio G. Marques

To increase the computational efficiency of interest-point based object retrieval, researchers have put remarkable research efforts into improving the efficiency of kNN-based feature matching, pursuing to match thousands of features against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Johannes Niedermayer , Peer Kröger

This paper studies the problem of information retrieval, to adapt to unseen tasks. Existing work generates synthetic queries from domain-specific documents to jointly train the retriever. However, the conventional query generator assumes…

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In multi-sample keyword spotting, each keyword class is represented by multiple spoken instances, called samples. A na\"ive approach to detect keywords in a target sequence consists of querying all samples of all classes using sub-sequence…

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Effective conversational search demands a deep understanding of user intent across multiple dialogue turns. Users frequently use abbreviations and shift topics in the middle of conversations, posing challenges for conventional retrievers.…

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Few-shot and zero-shot entity linking focus on the tail and emerging entities, which are more challenging but closer to real-world scenarios. The mainstream method is the ''retrieve and rerank'' two-stage framework. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shijue Huang , Bingbing Wang , Libo Qin , Qin Zhao , Ruifeng Xu

Dialogue intent classification aims to identify the underlying purpose or intent of a user's input in a conversation. Current intent classification systems encounter considerable challenges, primarily due to the vast number of possible…

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Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

In this work, we focus on the problem of retrieving relevant arguments for a query claim covering diverse aspects. State-of-the-art methods rely on explicit mappings between claims and premises, and thus are unable to utilize large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Michael Fromm , Max Berrendorf , Sandra Obermeier , Thomas Seidl , Evgeniy Faerman

Building conversational systems in new domains and with added functionality requires resource-efficient models that work under low-data regimes (i.e., in few-shot setups). Motivated by these requirements, we introduce intent detection…

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Multi turn intent understanding is central to task oriented chatbots, yet real deployments face tight token budgets and noisy contexts, and most retrieval pipelines emphasize relevance while overlooking set level diversity and confounds…

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Large-scale pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in language and image tasks, leading an increasing number of studies to explore the application of pre-trained image models, such as CLIP, in the domain of few-shot action…

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Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

Our objective is language-based search of large-scale image and video datasets. For this task, the approach that consists of independently mapping text and vision to a joint embedding space, a.k.a. dual encoders, is attractive as retrieval…

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This study evaluates the performances of an LSTM network for detecting and extracting the intent and content of com- mands for a financial chatbot. It presents two techniques, sequence to sequence learning and Multi-Task Learning, which…

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