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Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a core task in task-oriented dialogue systems, which aims at understanding the user's current goal through constructing semantic frames. SLU usually consists of two subtasks, including intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xuxin Cheng , Wanshi Xu , Zhihong Zhu , Hongxiang Li , Yuexian Zou

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one of the core components of a task-oriented dialogue system, which aims to extract the semantic meaning of user queries (e.g., intents and slots). In this work, we introduce OpenSLU, an open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Libo Qin , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Yunlong Feng , Wanxiang Che

Recent studies leverage large language models with multi-tasking capabilities, using natural language prompts to guide the model's behavior and surpassing performance of task-specific models. Motivated by this, we ask: can we build a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Siddhant Arora , Hayato Futami , Jee-weon Jung , Yifan Peng , Roshan Sharma , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

Natural language understanding (NLU) is a core component of a spoken dialogue system. Recently recurrent neural networks (RNN) obtained strong results on NLU due to their superior ability of preserving sequential information over time.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yun-Nung Chen , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Gokhan Tur , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in conversational systems that predict the next system actions in response to a current user utterance. Conventional approaches aggregate separate models of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Xuesong Yang , Yun-Nung Chen , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Paul Crook , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

Speech inherently contains rich acoustic information that extends far beyond the textual language. In real-world spoken language understanding, effective interpretation often requires integrating semantic meaning (e.g., content),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dingdong Wang , Junan Li , Jincenzi Wu , Dongchao Yang , Xueyuan Chen , Tianhua Zhang , Helen Meng

Spoken language understanding (SLU) acts as a critical component in goal-oriented dialog systems. It typically involves identifying the speakers intent and extracting semantic slots from user utterances, which are known as intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mengyang Chen , Jin Zeng , Jie Lou

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a core component of dialog systems. It typically involves two tasks - intent classification (IC) and slot labeling (SL), which are then followed by a dialogue management (DM) component. Such NLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Arshit Gupta , Peng Zhang , Garima Lalwani , Mona Diab

The integration of pre-trained text-based large language models (LLM) with speech input has enabled instruction-following capabilities for diverse speech tasks. This integration requires the use of a speech encoder, a speech adapter, and an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Suwon Shon , Kwangyoun Kim , Yi-Te Hsu , Prashant Sridhar , Shinji Watanabe , Karen Livescu

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

This paper presents our modeling and architecture approaches for building a highly accurate low-latency language identification system to support multilingual spoken queries for voice assistants. A common approach to solve multilingual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Chander Chandak , Zeynab Raeesy , Ariya Rastrow , Yuzong Liu , Xiangyang Huang , Siyu Wang , Dong Kwon Joo , Roland Maas

Continual learning has emerged as an increasingly important challenge across various tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In SLU, its objective is to effectively handle the emergence of new concepts and evolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Muqiao Yang , Xiang Li , Umberto Cappellazzo , Shinji Watanabe , Bhiksha Raj

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a structure prediction task in the field of speech. Recently, many works on SLU that treat it as a sequence-to-sequence task have achieved great success. However, This method is not suitable for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiliang Hu , Zuchao Li , Mengjia Shen , Haojun Ai , Sheng Li , Jun Zhang

Conventional spoken language understanding (SLU) consist of two stages, the first stage maps speech to text by automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the second stage maps text to intent by natural language understanding (NLU). End-to-end…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Haoran Wei , Fei Tao , Runze Su , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is an essential part of the spoken dialogue system, which typically consists of intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF) tasks. Recently, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) based methods achieved the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Peilin Zhou , Zhiqi Huang , Fenglin Liu , Yuexian Zou

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) systems that process human-human or human-computer interactions are often context independent and process each turn of a conversation independently. Spoken conversations on the other hand, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jatin Ganhotra , Samuel Thomas , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Sachindra Joshi , George Saon , Zoltán Tüske , Brian Kingsbury

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one essential step in building a dialogue system. Due to the expensive cost of obtaining the labeled data, SLU suffers from the data scarcity problem. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Haitao Lin , Lu Xiang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) models are a core component of voice assistants (VA), such as Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline designed to extend SLU systems to new languages, utilizing Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Pawel Pawlowski , Marcin Skorupa , Marcin Sowański , Artur Janicki

We present Speech-MASSIVE, a multilingual Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) dataset comprising the speech counterpart for a portion of the MASSIVE textual corpus. Speech-MASSIVE covers 12 languages from different families and inherits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Beomseok Lee , Ioan Calapodescu , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Laurent Besacier

We develop automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for stories told by Afrikaans and isiXhosa preschool children. Oral narratives provide a way to assess children's language development before they learn to read. We consider a range of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Christiaan Jacobs , Annelien Smith , Daleen Klop , Ondřej Klejch , Febe de Wet , Herman Kamper