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Conversational systems are of primary interest in the AI community. Chatbots are increasingly being deployed to provide round-the-clock support and to increase customer engagement. Many of the commercial bot building frameworks follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ajay Chatterjee , Shubhashis Sengupta

In the constant updates of the product dialogue systems, we need to retrain the natural language understanding (NLU) model as new data from the real users would be merged into the existent data accumulated in the last updates. Within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zefan Cai , Xin Zheng , Tianyu Liu , Xu Wang , Haoran Meng , Jiaqi Han , Gang Yuan , Binghuai Lin , Baobao Chang , Yunbo Cao

User intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems. Most previous works treat intent detection as a classification problem where utterances are labeled with predefined intents. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

New intent discovery aims to uncover novel intent categories from user utterances to expand the set of supported intent classes. It is a critical task for the development and service expansion of a practical dialogue system. Despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuwei Zhang , Haode Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Automatically and accurately identifying user intents and filling the associated slots from their spoken language are critical to the success of dialogue systems. Traditional methods require manually defining the DOMAIN-INTENT-SLOT schema…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Zengfeng Zeng , Dan Ma , Haiqin Yang , Zhen Gou , Jianping Shen

Spoken intent detection has become a popular approach to interface with various smart devices with ease. However, such systems are limited to the preset list of intents-terms or commands, which restricts the quick customization of personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ashish Mittal , Samarth Bharadwaj , Shreya Khare , Saneem Chemmengath , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Brian Kingsbury

With the advent of conversational assistants, like Amazon Alexa, Google Now, etc., dialogue systems are gaining a lot of traction, especially in industrial setting. These systems typically consist of Spoken Language understanding component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Arshit Gupta , John Hewitt , Katrin Kirchhoff

Conversational systems have a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module. In this module, there is a task known as an intent classification that aims at identifying what a user is attempting to achieve from an utterance. Previous works use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jeanfranco D. Farfan-Escobedo , Julio C. Dos Reis

Open intent classification is a practical yet challenging task in dialogue systems. Its objective is to accurately classify samples of known intents while at the same time detecting those of open (unknown) intents. Existing methods usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zifeng Cheng , Zhiwei Jiang , Yafeng Yin , Cong Wang , Qing Gu

Traditional text classifiers are limited to predicting over a fixed set of labels. However, in many real-world applications the label set is frequently changing. For example, in intent classification, new intents may be added over time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jeremy Wohlwend , Ethan R. Elenberg , Samuel Altschul , Shawn Henry , Tao Lei

Building conversational systems in new domains and with added functionality requires resource-efficient models that work under low-data regimes (i.e., in few-shot setups). Motivated by these requirements, we introduce intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Iñigo Casanueva , Tadas Temčinas , Daniela Gerz , Matthew Henderson , Ivan Vulić

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

Dialogue Topic Segmentation (DTS) aims to divide dialogues into coherent segments. DTS plays a crucial role in various NLP downstream tasks, but suffers from chronic problems: data shortage, labeling ambiguity, and incremental complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Seungmin Lee , Yongsang Yoo , Minhwa Jung , Min Song

Detecting out-of-domain (OOD) intents from user queries is essential for a task-oriented dialogue system. Previous OOD detection studies generally work on the assumption that plenty of labeled IND intents exist. In this paper, we focus on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Pei Wang , Keqing He , Yutao Mou , Xiaoshuai Song , Yanan Wu , Jingang Wang , Yunsen Xian , Xunliang Cai , Weiran Xu

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

Intent classification is an important component of a functional Information Retrieval ecosystem. Many current approaches to intent classification, typically framed as a classification problem, can be problematic as intents are often hard to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Arjun Bhalla , Qi Huang

Intent detection is one of the core components of goal-oriented dialog systems, and detecting out-of-scope (OOS) intents is also a practically important skill. Few-shot learning is attracting much attention to mitigate data scarcity, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jian-Guo Zhang , Kazuma Hashimoto , Wenhao Liu , Chien-Sheng Wu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

In this paper, we introduce the use of Semantic Hashing as embedding for the task of Intent Classification and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three frequently used benchmarks. Intent Classification on a small dataset is a…

Accurate multi-turn intent classification is essential for advancing conversational AI systems. However, challenges such as the scarcity of comprehensive datasets and the complexity of contextual dependencies across dialogue turns hinder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Junhua Liu , Yong Keat Tan , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

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