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Continual learning in task-oriented dialogue systems can allow us to add new domains and functionalities through time without incurring the high cost of a whole system retraining. In this paper, we propose a continual learning benchmark for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Zhenpeng Zhou , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Bing Liu , Zhou Yu , Eunjoon Cho , Zhiguang Wang

Recent advancements in dialogue systems have highlighted the significance of integrating multimodal responses, which enable conveying ideas through diverse modalities rather than solely relying on text-based interactions. This enrichment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang-Sheng Kao , Yun-Nung Chen

Dialogue contexts are proven helpful in the spoken language understanding (SLU) system and they are typically encoded with explicit memory representations. However, most of the previous models learn the context memory with only one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 He Bai , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Conversational explainable artificial intelligence (ConvXAI) systems based on large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant interest from the research community in natural language processing (NLP) and human-computer interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Qianli Wang , Tatiana Anikina , Nils Feldhus , Simon Ostermann , Sebastian Möller

Most dialogue systems in real world rely on predefined intents and answers for QA service, so discovering potential intents from large corpus previously is really important for building such dialogue services. Considering that most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Feng Wei , Zhenbo Chen , Zhenghong Hao , Fengxin Yang , Hua Wei , Bing Han , Sheng Guo

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks have been studied for many decades in the speech research community, but have not received as much attention as lower-level tasks like speech and speaker recognition. In particular, there are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Suwon Shon , Siddhant Arora , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Ankita Pasad , Felix Wu , Roshan Sharma , Wei-Lun Wu , Hung-Yi Lee , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

Intent Recognition and Slot Identification are crucial components in spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards both these tasks in the context of low resourced and unwritten languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Akshat Gupta , Olivia Deng , Akruti Kushwaha , Saloni Mittal , William Zeng , Sai Krishna Rallabandi , Alan W Black

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

Enhancing Language Models' (LMs) ability to understand purchase intentions in E-commerce scenarios is crucial for their effective assistance in various downstream tasks. However, previous approaches that distill intentions from LMs often…

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) safety approaches focus on explicitly harmful content while overlooking a critical vulnerability: the inability to understand context and recognize user intent. This creates exploitable vulnerabilities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ahmed M. Hussain , Salahuddin Salahuddin

The dynamic nature of language, particularly evident in the realm of slang and memes on the Internet, poses serious challenges to the adaptability of large language models (LLMs). Traditionally anchored to static datasets, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Lingrui Mei , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Baolong Bi , Xueqi Cheng

For companies with customer service, mapping intents inside their conversational data is crucial in building applications based on natural language understanding (NLU). Nevertheless, there is no established automated technique to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Mia Taige Li , Hadi Abdi Ghavidel

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

Understanding spoken language is a highly complex problem, which can be decomposed into several simpler tasks. In this paper, we focus on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), the module of spoken dialog systems responsible for extracting a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Marco Dinarelli , Yoann Dupont , Isabelle Tellier

Intent understanding plays an important role in dialog systems, and is typically formulated as a supervised learning problem. However, it is challenging and time-consuming to design the intents for a new domain from scratch, which usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengfei Liu , Youzhang Ning , King Keung Wu , Kun Li , Helen Meng

Precisely understanding users' contextual search intent has been an important challenge for conversational search. As conversational search sessions are much more diverse and long-tailed, existing methods trained on limited data still show…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Kelong Mao , Zhicheng Dou , Fengran Mo , Jiewen Hou , Haonan Chen , Hongjin Qian

Language understanding in speech-based systems have attracted much attention in recent years with the growing demand for voice interface applications. However, the robustness of natural language understanding (NLU) systems to errors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Lingyun Feng , Jianwei Yu , Deng Cai , Songxiang Liu , Haitao Zheng , Yan Wang

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

Out-of-scope (OOS) intent detection is a critical challenge in task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), as it ensures robustness to unseen and ambiguous queries. In this work, we propose a novel but simple modular framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Álvaro Zaera , Diana Nicoleta Popa , Ivan Sekulic , Paolo Rosso