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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

With increasing demand for and adoption of virtual assistants, recent work has investigated ways to accelerate bot schema design through the automatic induction of intents or the induction of slots and dialogue states. However, a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 James Gung , Raphael Shu , Emily Moeng , Wesley Rose , Salvatore Romeo , Yassine Benajiba , Arshit Gupta , Saab Mansour , Yi Zhang

In conversational search systems, a key component is to determine and clarify the intent behind complex queries. We view intent clarification in light of the exploratory search paradigm, where users, through an iterative, evolving process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maik Larooij

Intent detection, a critical component in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, faces significant challenges in adapting to the rapid influx of integrable tools with complex interrelationships. Existing approaches, such as zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zihao Feng , Xiaoxue Wang , Ziwei Bai , Donghang Su , Bowen Wu , Qun Yu , Baoxun Wang

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Task-oriented proactive dialogue agents play a pivotal role in recruitment, particularly for steering conversations towards specific business outcomes, such as acquiring social-media contacts for private-channel conversion. Although…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiyong Cao , Dunqiang Liu , Qi Dai , Haojun Xu , Huaiyan Xu , Huan He , Yafei Liu , Siyuan Liu , XiaoLin Lin , Ke Ma , Ruqian Shi , Sijia Yao , Hao Wang , Sicheng Zhou

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

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

Adaptive agent design offers a way to improve human-AI collaboration on time-sensitive tasks in rapidly changing environments. In such cases, to ensure the human maintains an accurate understanding of critical task elements, an assistive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anwesha Das , John Duff , Jörg Hoffmann , Vera Demberg

In human dialogue, nonverbal information such as nodding and facial expressions is as crucial as verbal information, and spoken dialogue systems are also expected to express such nonverbal behaviors. We focus on nodding, which is critical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kazushi Kato , Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara

Intent detection and identification from multi-turn dialogue has become a widely explored technique in conversational agents, for example, voice assistants and intelligent customer services. The conventional approaches typically cast the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zengguang Hao , Jie Zhang , Binxia Xu , Yafang Wang , Gerard de Melo , Xiaolong Li

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural language can be easily ambiguous and hence such a direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaustubh D. Dhole

Recent progress on large language models (LLMs) has enabled dialogue agents to generate highly naturalistic and plausible text. However, current LLM language generation focuses on responding accurately to questions and requests with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Joey Hong , Jessica Lin , Anca Dragan , Sergey Levine

The rapidly growing market demand for automatic dialogue agents capable of goal-oriented behavior has caused many tech-industry leaders to invest considerable efforts into task-oriented dialog systems. The success of these systems is highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ella Rabinovich , Matan Vetzler , David Boaz , Vineet Kumar , Gaurav Pandey , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

For machine agents to successfully interact with humans in real-world settings, they will need to develop an understanding of human mental life. Intuitive psychology, the ability to reason about hidden mental variables that drive observable…

Conversational agents powered by large language models (LLMs) with tool integration achieve strong performance on fixed task-oriented dialogue datasets but remain vulnerable to unanticipated, user-induced errors. Rather than focusing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Takyoung Kim , Jinseok Nam , Chandrayee Basu , Xing Fan , Chengyuan Ma , Heng Ji , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capability while lack explicit mechanisms for visual grounding and segmentation, creating a gap between cognitive reasoning and visual perception. To bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yi Lu , Jiawang Cao , Yongliang Wu , Bozheng Li , Licheng Tang , Yangguang Ji , Chong Wu , Jay Wu , Wenbo Zhu

Eye-hand coordinated interaction is becoming a mainstream interaction modality in Virtual Reality (VR) user interfaces.Current paradigms for this multimodal interaction require users to learn predefined gestures and memorize multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhimin Wang , Chenyu Gu , Feng Lu

There are several dialog frameworks which allow manual specification of intents and rule based dialog flow. The rule based framework provides good control to dialog designers at the expense of being more time consuming and laborious. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Dhiraj Madan , Sachindra Joshi