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Interest in dialog systems has grown substantially in the past decade. By extension, so too has interest in developing and improving intent classification and slot-filling models, which are two components that are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

Multi-intent spoken language understanding (SLU) involves two tasks: multiple intent detection and slot filling, which jointly handle utterances containing more than one intent. Owing to this characteristic, which closely reflects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Di Wu , Ruiyu Fang , Liting Jiang , Shuangyong Song , Xiaomeng Huang , Shiquan Wang , Zhongqiu Li , Lingling Shi , Mengjiao Bao , Yongxiang Li , Hao Huang

Recent joint intent detection and slot tagging models have seen improved performance when compared to individual models. In many real-world datasets, the slot labels and values have a strong correlation with their intent labels. In such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shruthi Hariharan , Vignesh Kumar Krishnamurthy , Utkarsh , Jayantha Gowda Sarapanahalli

Detecting and identifying user intent from text, both written and spoken, plays an important role in modelling and understand dialogs. Existing research for intent discovery model it as a classification task with a predefined set of known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Nikhita Vedula , Nedim Lipka , Pranav Maneriker , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

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,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hoang H. Nguyen , Chenwei Zhang , Ye Liu , Philip S. Yu

Intent detection and slot filling are critical tasks in spoken and natural language understanding for task-oriented dialog systems. In this work we describe our participation in the slot and intent detection for low-resource language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sang Yun Kwon , Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Traditional intent classification models are based on a pre-defined intent set and only recognize limited in-domain (IND) intent classes. But users may input out-of-domain (OOD) queries in a practical dialogue system. Such OOD queries can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Yanan Wu , Pei Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

Intent classification and slot filling are two essential tasks for natural language understanding. They often suffer from small-scale human-labeled training data, resulting in poor generalization capability, especially for rare words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang

Inspired by recent work in meta-learning and generative teaching networks, we propose a framework called Generative Conversational Networks, in which conversational agents learn to generate their own labelled training data (given some seed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Seokhwan Kim , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Complex natural language understanding modules in dialog systems have a richer understanding of user utterances, and thus are critical in providing a better user experience. However, these models are often created from scratch, for specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Brian Lester , Sagnik Ray Choudhury , Rashmi Prasad , Srinivas Bangalore

As voice assistants cement their place in our technologically advanced society, there remains a need to cater to the diverse linguistic landscape, including colloquial forms of low-resource languages. Our study introduces the first-ever…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Fardin Ahsan Sakib , A H M Rezaul Karim , Saadat Hasan Khan , Md Mushfiqur Rahman

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…

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

In practice, most spoken language understanding systems process user input in a pipelined manner; first domain is predicted, then intent and semantic slots are inferred according to the semantic frames of the predicted domain. The pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Young-Bum Kim , Sungjin Lee , Karl Stratos

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

In this paper, we introduce a methodology for predicting intent and slots of a query for a chatbot that answers career-related queries. We take a multi-staged approach where both the processes (intent-classification and slot-tagging) inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Amber Nigam , Prashik Sahare , Kushagra Pandya

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is important in today's technology as it enables machines to comprehend and process human language, leading to improved human-computer interactions and advancements in fields such as virtual assistants,…

Joint intent detection and slot filling, which is also termed as joint NLU (Natural Language Understanding) is invaluable for smart voice assistants. Recent advancements in this area have been heavily focusing on improving accuracy using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kalpa Gunaratna , Vijay Srinivasan , Hongxia Jin

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

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