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Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically communicate with a backend (e.g. database, Web API) to complete certain tasks to reach a goal. The intents that a dialogue system can recognize are mostly included to the system by the developer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Umutcan Şimşek , Dieter Fensel

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 human intent is a complex, high-level task for large language models (LLMs), requiring analytical reasoning, contextual interpretation, dynamic information aggregation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Real-world public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaozhe Li , TianYi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yuxi Gong , Yizhao Yang , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

This paper presents a novel multi-agent system called Chat-of-Thought, designed to facilitate the generation of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) documents for industrial assets. Chat-of-Thought employs multiple collaborative Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Christodoulos Constantinides , Shuxin Lin , Nianjun Zhou , Dhaval Patel

Detecting and identifying user intent from text, both written and spoken, plays an important role in modelling and understand dialogs. Existing research for intent discovery model it as a classification task with a predefined set of known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Nikhita Vedula , Nedim Lipka , Pranav Maneriker , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Identifying user intents in information-seeking dialogs is crucial for a system to meet user's information needs. Intent prediction (IP) is challenging and demands sufficient dialogs with human-labeled intents for training. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Arian Askari , Roxana Petcu , Chuan Meng , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Amin Abolghasemi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Suzan Verberne

Discovering customer intentions is crucial for automated service agents, yet existing intent clustering methods often fall short due to their reliance on embedding distance metrics and neglect of underlying semantic structures. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mengze Hong , Wailing Ng , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Di Jiang

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful and general solutions to many natural language tasks. However, many of the most important applications of language generation are interactive, where an agent has to talk to a person to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Joey Hong , Sergey Levine , Anca Dragan

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

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

The reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs), defined as their ability to analyze, infer, and make decisions based on input information, is essential for building intelligent task-oriented dialogue systems. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yu Zhu , Kai Yang

Training machines to understand natural language and interact with humans is one of the major goals of artificial intelligence. Recent years have witnessed an evolution from matching networks to pre-trained language models (PrLMs). In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Longxiang Liu

Developing a dialogue agent that is capable of making autonomous decisions and communicating by natural language is one of the long-term goals of machine learning research. Traditional approaches either rely on hand-crafting a small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Tsung-Hsien Wen , Yishu Miao , Phil Blunsom , Steve Young

Building a shopping product collection has been primarily a human job. With the manual efforts of craftsmanship, experts collect related but diverse products with common shopping intent that are effective when displayed together, e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hiun Kim , Jisu Jeong , Kyung-Min Kim , Dongjun Lee , Hyun Dong Lee , Dongpil Seo , Jeeseung Han , Dong Wook Park , Ji Ae Heo , Rak Yeong Kim

Recognizing customer intent accurately with language models based on customer-agent conversational data is essential in today's digital customer service marketplace, but it is often hindered by the lack of sufficient labeled data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyu Luo , Peng Liu , Stefan Esping

Multimodal intent recognition poses significant challenges, requiring the incorporation of non-verbal modalities from real-world contexts to enhance the comprehension of human intentions. Existing benchmark datasets are limited in scale and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Hanlei Zhang , Xin Wang , Hua Xu , Qianrui Zhou , Kai Gao , Jianhua Su , jinyue Zhao , Wenrui Li , Yanting Chen

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

Multi-turn conversation has emerged as a predominant interaction paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs). Users often employ follow-up questions to refine their intent, expecting LLMs to adapt dynamically. However, recent research reveals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Geng Liu , Fei Zhu , Rong Feng , Changyi Ma , Shiqi Wang , Gaofeng Meng

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative visual analytics systems has transformed data-driven insights, yet significant challenges persist in accurately interpreting users' analytical and interaction intents. While language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Juntong Chen , Jiang Wu , Jiajing Guo , Vikram Mohanty , Xueming Li , Jorge Piazentin Ono , Wenbin He , Liu Ren , Dongyu Liu

The increasing complexity of smart manufacturing environments demands interfaces that can translate high-level human intents into machine-executable actions. This paper presents a unified framework that integrates instruction-tuned Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Takoua Jradi , John Violos , Dimitrios Spatharakis , Lydia Mavraidi , Ioannis Dimolitsas , Aris Leivadeas , Symeon Papavassiliou