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Intent detection is a key component of modern goal-oriented dialog systems that accomplish a user task by predicting the intent of users' text input. There are three primary challenges in designing robust and accurate intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Haode Qi , Lin Pan , Atin Sood , Abhishek Shah , Ladislav Kunc , Mo Yu , Saloni Potdar

In this study, a modular, data-free pipeline for multi-label intention recognition is proposed for agentic AI applications in transportation. Unlike traditional intent recognition systems that depend on large, annotated corpora and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiaocai Zhang , Hur Lim , Ke Wang , Zhe Xiao , Jing Wang , Kelvin Lee , Xiuju Fu , Zheng Qin

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gyutae Park , Ingeol Baek , ByeongJeong Kim , Joongbo Shin , Hwanhee Lee

In exploratory search, users often submit vague queries to investigate unfamiliar topics, but receive limited feedback about how the search engine understood their input. This leads to a self-reinforcing cycle of mismatched results and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yumeng Wang , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne

In this paper, we propose an intuitive, training-free and label-free method for intent clustering in conversational search. Current approaches to short text clustering use LLM-generated pseudo-labels to enrich text representations or to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 I-Fan Lin , Faegheh Hasibi , Suzan Verberne

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Intent detection is a critical component of task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS) which enables the identification of suitable actions to address user utterances at each dialog turn. Traditional approaches relied on computationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Gaurav Arora , Shreya Jain , Srujana Merugu

Understanding user intents from UI interaction trajectories remains a challenging, yet crucial, frontier in intelligent agent development. While massive, datacenter-based, multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) possess greater capacity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Danielle Cohen , Yoni Halpern , Noam Kahlon , Joel Oren , Omri Berkovitch , Sapir Caduri , Ido Dagan , Anatoly Efros

We present our work on Track 2 in the Dialog System Technology Challenges 11 (DSTC11). DSTC11-Track2 aims to provide a benchmark for zero-shot, cross-domain, intent-set induction. In the absence of in-domain training dataset, robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jihyun Lee , Seungyeon Seo , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the lengthy dialogue into a concise summary, and has recently achieved significant progress. However, the result of existing methods is still far from satisfactory. Previous works indicated that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yicheng Zou , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Zhongkai Fu , Qi Zhang , Dongsheng Li , Tao Gui

We introduce the dialog intent induction task and present a novel deep multi-view clustering approach to tackle the problem. Dialog intent induction aims at discovering user intents from user query utterances in human-human conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Hugh Perkins , Yi Yang

One of the main problems in applying deep learning techniques to recognize activities of daily living (ADLs) based on inertial sensors is the lack of appropriately large labelled datasets to train deep learning-based models. A large amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Hamza Amrani , Daniela Micucci , Paolo Napoletano

Recent work has highlighted the potential of modelling interactive behaviour analogously to natural language. We propose interactive behaviour summarisation as a novel computational task and demonstrate its usefulness for automatically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Guanhua Zhang , Mohamed Ahmed , Zhiming Hu , Andreas Bulling

Task-oriented dialog(TOD) aims to assist users in achieving specific goals through multi-turn conversation. Recently, good results have been obtained based on large pre-trained models. However, the labeled-data scarcity hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zhitong Yang , Xing Ma , Anqi Liu , Zheyu Zhang

In task-oriented dialogue systems, intent detection is crucial for interpreting user queries and providing appropriate responses. Existing research primarily addresses simple queries with a single intent, lacking effective systems for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ankan Mullick , Sombit Bose , Abhilash Nandy , Gajula Sai Chaitanya , Pawan Goyal

Task oriented language understanding in dialog systems is often modeled using intents (task of a query) and slots (parameters for that task). Intent detection and slot tagging are, in turn, modeled using sentence classification and word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta , Mrinal Mohit , Rushin Shah

Identifying user intents from natural language utterances is a crucial step in conversational systems that has been extensively studied as a supervised classification problem. However, in practice, new intents emerge after deploying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 A. B. Siddique , Fuad Jamour , Luxun Xu , Vagelis Hristidis

Modeling domain intent within an evolving domain structure presents a significant challenge for domain-specific conversational recommendation systems (CRS). The conventional approach involves training an intent model using utterance-intent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Safikureshi Mondal , Subhasis Dasgupta , Amarnath Gupta

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Intent, a critical cognitive notion and mental state, is ubiquitous in human communication and problem-solving. Accurately understanding the underlying intent behind questions is imperative to reasoning towards correct answers. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuwei Yin , Giuseppe Carenini