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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 H. Weld , X. Huang , S. Long , J. Poon , S. C. Han

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate coherent text, they often struggle to recognise user intent behind queries. In contrast, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models interpret the purpose and key information of user input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yan Li , So-Eon Kim , Seong-Bae Park , Soyeon Caren Han

When a human communicates with a machine using natural language on the web and online, how can it understand the human's intention and semantic context of their talk? This is an important AI task as it enables the machine to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

Being able to recognize words as slots and detect the intent of an utterance has been a keen issue in natural language understanding. The existing works either treat slot filling and intent detection separately in a pipeline manner, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Chenwei Zhang , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Philip S. Yu

Intent Detection and Slot Filling are two pillar tasks in Spoken Natural Language Understanding. Common approaches adopt joint Deep Learning architectures in attention-based recurrent frameworks. In this work, we aim at exploiting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Giuseppe Castellucci , Valentina Bellomaria , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli

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

The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to scalability is reducing the amount of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Aaron Jaech , Larry Heck , Mari Ostendorf

Natural language understanding includes the tasks of intent detection (identifying a user's objectives) and slot filling (extracting the entities relevant to those objectives). Prior slot filling methods assume that each intent type cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Harshil Shah , Arthur Wilcke , Marius Cobzarenco , Cristi Cobzarenco , Edward Challis , David Barber

Detecting the user's intent and finding the corresponding slots among the utterance's words are important tasks in natural language understanding. Their interconnected nature makes their joint modeling a standard part of training such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Utterance-level intent detection and token-level slot filling are two key tasks for natural language understanding (NLU) in task-oriented systems. Most existing approaches assume that only a single intent exists in an utterance. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fengyu Cai , Wanhao Zhou , Fei Mi , Boi Faltings

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

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 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

Speaker intent detection and semantic slot filling are two critical tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) for dialogue systems. In this paper, we describe a recurrent neural network (RNN) model that jointly performs intent detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Bing Liu , Ian Lane

The semantic understanding of natural dialogues composes of several parts. Some of them, like intent classification and entity detection, have a crucial role in deciding the next steps in handling user input. Handling each task as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Petr Lorenc

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

Joint intent detection and slot filling is a key research topic in natural language understanding (NLU). Existing joint intent and slot filling systems analyze and compute features collectively for all slot types, and importantly, have no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Kalpa Gunaratna , Vijay Srinivasan , Akhila Yerukola , Hongxia Jin

Multiple intent detection and slot filling are two fundamental and crucial tasks in spoken language understanding. Motivated by the fact that the two tasks are closely related, joint models that can detect intents and extract slots…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Nguyen Anh Tu , Hoang Thi Thu Uyen , Tu Minh Phuong , Ngo Xuan Bach

Representation learning is an essential problem in a wide range of applications and it is important for performing downstream tasks successfully. In this paper, we propose a new model that learns coupled representations of domains, intents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 JIhwan Lee , Dongchan Kim , Ruhi Sarikaya , Young-Bum Kim

Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems rely on sophisticated semantic notions revealed in single utterances to detect intents and slots. However, they lack the capability of modeling multi-turn dynamics within a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ting-Wei Wu , Biing-Hwang Juang
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