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Voice-controlled dialog systems have become immensely popular due to their ability to perform a wide range of actions in response to diverse user queries. These agents possess a predefined set of skills or intents to fulfill specific user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Saransh Sharma , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Systems like Voice-command based conversational agents are characterized by a pre-defined set of skills or intents to perform user specified tasks. In the course of time, newer intents may emerge requiring retraining. However, the newer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

New Intent Discovery (NID) aims to recognize known and infer new intent categories with the help of limited labeled and large-scale unlabeled data. The task is addressed as a feature-clustering problem and recent studies augment instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shun Zhang , Jian Yang , Jiaqi Bai , Chaoran Yan , Tongliang Li , Zhao Yan , Zhoujun Li

New intent discovery (NID) seeks to recognize both new and known intents from unlabeled user utterances, which finds prevalent use in practical dialogue systems. Existing works towards NID mainly adopt a cascaded architecture, wherein the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hongtao Wang , Renchi Yang , Wenqing Lin

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

One of the primary tasks in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is to recognize the intents as well as domains of users' spoken and written language utterances. Most existing research formulates this as a supervised classification problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Nikhita Vedula , Rahul Gupta , Aman Alok , Mukund Sridhar

Continual learning (or class incremental learning) is a realistic learning scenario for computer vision systems, where deep neural networks are trained on episodic data, and the data from previous episodes are generally inaccessible to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aditya R. Bhattacharya , Debanjan Goswami , Shayok Chakraborty

Active Learning (AL) addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. However, for subjective NLP tasks, incorporating a wide range of perspectives in the annotation process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Michiel van der Meer , Neele Falk , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah , Enrico Liscio

New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Fei Long , Kai Gao

Intent discovery is the task of inferring latent intents from a set of unlabeled utterances, and is a useful step towards the efficient creation of new conversational agents. We show that recent competitive methods in intent discovery can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Maarten De Raedt , Fréderic Godin , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Identifying intents from dialogue utterances forms an integral component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Intent-related tasks are typically formulated either as a classification task, where the utterances are classified into predefined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bhavuk Singhal , Ashim Gupta , Shivasankaran V P , Amrith Krishna

Intent detection aims to identify user intents from natural language inputs, where supervised methods rely heavily on labeled in-domain (IND) data and struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) intents, limiting their practical applicability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiao Wei , Xiaobao Wang , Ning Zhuang , Chenyang Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu dang

User intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems. Most previous works treat intent detection as a classification problem where utterances are labeled with predefined intents. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

New intent discovery aims to uncover novel intent categories from user utterances to expand the set of supported intent classes. It is a critical task for the development and service expansion of a practical dialogue system. Despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuwei Zhang , Haode Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

Novel intent discovery automates the process of grouping similar messages (questions) to identify previously unknown intents. However, current research focuses on publicly available datasets which have only the question field and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Aleksandra Chrabrowa , Tsimur Hadeliya , Dariusz Kajtoch , Robert Mroczkowski , Piotr Rybak

Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (TODS) often face the challenge of encountering new intents. New Intent Discovery (NID) is a crucial task that aims to identify these novel intents while maintaining the capability to recognize existing ones.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Fan , Jiashu Pu , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

In the field of continual learning, relying on so-called oracles for novelty detection is commonplace albeit unrealistic. This paper introduces CONCLAD ("COntinuous Novel CLAss Detector"), a comprehensive solution to the under-explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Amanda Rios , Ibrahima Ndiour , Parual Datta , Omesh Tickoo , Nilesh Ahuja

New Intent Discovery (NID) strives to identify known and reasonably deduce novel intent groups in the open-world scenario. But current methods face issues with inaccurate pseudo-labels and poor representation learning, creating a negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shun Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Jian Yang , Changyu Ren , Jiaqi Bai , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li

Discovering new intents is a crucial task in dialogue systems. Most existing methods are limited in transferring the prior knowledge from known intents to new intents. They also have difficulties in providing high-quality supervised signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Ting-En Lin , Rui Lyu
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