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Classifying the intent behind healthcare search queries is crucial for improving the delivery of online healthcare information. The intricate nature of medical search queries, coupled with the limited availability of high-quality labeled…

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 and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding(SLU) system. Multiple deep learning based models have demonstrated good results on these tasks . The most effective algorithms are based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yu Wang , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

We consider the importance of different utterances in the context for selecting the response usually depends on the current query. In this paper, we propose the model TripleNet to fully model the task with the triple <context, query,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Wentao Ma , Yiming Cui , Nan Shao , Su He , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

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

Slot filling and intent detection are two highly correlated tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU). Recent SLU research attempts to explore zero-shot prompting techniques in large language models to alleviate the data scarcity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Libo Qin , Fuxuan Wei , Qiguang Chen , Jingxuan Zhou , Shijue Huang , Jiasheng Si , Wenpeng Lu , Wanxiang Che

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is important in today's technology as it enables machines to comprehend and process human language, leading to improved human-computer interactions and advancements in fields such as virtual assistants,…

Conversational AI chatbots have become increasingly common within the customer service industry. Despite improvements in their emotional development, they often lack the authenticity of real customer service interactions or the competence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Antonin Brun , Ruying Liu , Aryan Shukla , Frances Watson , Jonathan Gratch

This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

Despite the remarkable advancements in machine translation, the current sentence-level paradigm faces challenges when dealing with highly-contextual languages like Japanese. In this paper, we explore how context-awareness can improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sumire Honda , Patrick Fernandes , Chrysoula Zerva

Neural chat translation aims to translate bilingual conversational text, which has a broad application in international exchanges and cooperation. Despite the impressive performance of sentence-level and context-aware Neural Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Goal oriented dialogue systems have become a prominent customer-care interaction channel for most businesses. However, not all interactions are smooth, and customer intent misunderstanding is a major cause of dialogue failure. We show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Eyal Ben-David , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Slot filling is a critical task in natural language understanding (NLU) for dialog systems. State-of-the-art approaches treat it as a sequence labeling problem and adopt such models as BiLSTM-CRF. While these models work relatively well on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yu Gong , Xusheng Luo , Yu Zhu , Wenwu Ou , Zhao Li , Muhua Zhu , Kenny Q. Zhu , Lu Duan , Xi Chen

Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. The two tasks are closely tied and the slots often highly depend on the intent. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Libo Qin , Wanxiang Che , Yangming Li , Haoyang Wen , Ting Liu

Context-aware machine translation models are designed to leverage contextual information, but often fail to do so. As a result, they inaccurately disambiguate pronouns and polysemous words that require context for resolution. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Kayo Yin , Patrick Fernandes , Danish Pruthi , Aditi Chaudhary , André F. T. Martins , Graham Neubig

Current researches on spoken language understanding (SLU) heavily are limited to a simple setting: the plain text-based SLU that takes the user utterance as input and generates its corresponding semantic frames (e.g., intent and slots).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Xiao Xu , Libo Qin , Kaiji Chen , Guoxing Wu , Linlin Li , Wanxiang Che

Context-aware neural machine translation aims to use the document-level context to improve translation quality. However, not all words in the context are helpful. The irrelevant or trivial words may bring some noise and distract the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jian Yang , Yuwei Yin , Shuming Ma , Liqun Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Haoyang Huang , Dongdong Zhang , Yutao Zeng , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Novel intent discovery automates the process of grouping similar messages (questions) to identify previously unknown intents. However, current research focuses on publicly available datasets which have only the question field and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Aleksandra Chrabrowa , Tsimur Hadeliya , Dariusz Kajtoch , Robert Mroczkowski , Piotr Rybak

In recent years, chat-bot has become a new type of intelligent terminal to guide users to consume services. However, it is criticized most that the services it provides are not what users expect or most expect. This defect mostly dues to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Junrui Tian , Zhiying Tu , Zhongjie Wang , Xiaofei Xu , Min Liu

Modern task-oriented dialog systems need to reliably understand users' intents. Intent detection is most challenging when moving to new domains or new languages, since there is little annotated data. To address this challenge, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Li Zhang , Qing Lyu , Chris Callison-Burch