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Recent voice assistants are usually based on the cascade spoken language understanding (SLU) solution, which consists of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine and a natural language understanding (NLU) system. Because such approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Anderson R. Avila , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Chao Xing

Machine unlearning, the process of efficiently removing specific information from machine learning models, is a growing area of interest for responsible AI. However, few studies have explored the effectiveness of unlearning methods on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Alkis Koudounas , Claudio Savelli , Flavio Giobergia , Elena Baralis

Recent advances in Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have led to great progress in speech understanding tasks such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, whether these models can…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Peiji Yang , Yicheng Zhong , Jianxing Yu , Zhisheng Wang , Zihao Gou , Wenqing Chen , Jian Yin

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is composed of two subtasks: intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF). There are two lines of research on SLU. One jointly tackles these two subtasks to improve their prediction accuracy, and the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Linhao Zhang , Yu Shi , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Houfeng Wang , Michael Zeng

In this paper, we perform an exhaustive evaluation of different representations to address the intent classification problem in a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) setup. We benchmark three types of systems to perform the SLU intent…

Spoken language understanding (SLU), which is a core component of the task-oriented dialogue system, has made substantial progress in the research of single-turn dialogue. However, the performance in multi-turn dialogue is still not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lizhi Cheng , Weijia Jia , Wenmian Yang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems, gradually becoming the mainstream approach. However, most current approaches address these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Wenhao Guan , Zhikang Niu , Ziyue Jiang , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Xie Chen

Research in auditory, visual, and audiovisual speech recognition (ASR, VSR, and AVSR, respectively) has traditionally been conducted independently. Even recent self-supervised studies addressing two or all three tasks simultaneously tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Alexandros Haliassos , Rodrigo Mira , Honglie Chen , Zoe Landgraf , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

A major focus of recent research in spoken language understanding (SLU) has been on the end-to-end approach where a single model can predict intents directly from speech inputs without intermediate transcripts. However, this approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sujeong Cha , Wangrui Hou , Hyun Jung , My Phung , Michael Picheny , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , Edmilson Morais

Spoken Language Understanding infers semantic meaning directly from audio data, and thus promises to reduce error propagation and misunderstandings in end-user applications. However, publicly available SLU resources are limited. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Emanuele Bastianelli , Andrea Vanzo , Pawel Swietojanski , Verena Rieser

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks involve mapping from speech audio signals to semantic labels. Given the complexity of such tasks, good performance might be expected to require large labeled datasets, which are difficult to collect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ankita Pasad , Felix Wu , Suwon Shon , Karen Livescu , Kyu J. Han

Audio is the primary modality for human communication and has driven the success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. However, such audio-centric systems inherently exclude individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Sungjune Park , Junil Won , Yong Man Ro

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks are usually solved by first transcribing an utterance with automatic speech recognition (ASR) and then feeding the output to a text-based model. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Mostafa Abdou , Joakim Edin , Lars Maaløe , Anders Søgaard , Christian Igel

Spoken language understanding (SLU) requires a model to analyze input acoustic signal to understand its linguistic content and make predictions. To boost the models' performance, various pre-training methods have been proposed to learn rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yu-An Chung , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

Learning intents and slot labels from user utterances is a fundamental step in all spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialog systems. State-of-the-art neural network based methods, after deployment, often suffer from performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Avik Ray , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) remains elusive even with current large pretrained language models on text and speech, especially in multilingual cases. Machine translation has been established as a powerful pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mutian He , Philip N. Garner

Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding has great potential for widespread implementation. Jointly modeling Intent Detection and Slot Filling in it provides a channel to exploit the correlation between intents and slots. However, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Feifan Song , Lianzhe Huang , Houfeng Wang

State-of-the-art natural language processing systems rely on supervision in the form of annotated data to learn competent models. These models are generally trained on data in a single language (usually English), and cannot be directly used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Alexis Conneau , Guillaume Lample , Ruty Rinott , Adina Williams , Samuel R. Bowman , Holger Schwenk , Veselin Stoyanov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code understanding and generation. However, their effectiveness on non-code Software Engineering (SE) tasks remains underexplored. We present 'Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fabian C. Peña , Steffen Herbold

Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems extract both text transcripts and semantics associated with intents and slots from input speech utterances. SLU systems usually consist of (1) an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, (2) an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anirudh Raju , Milind Rao , Gautam Tiwari , Pranav Dheram , Bryan Anderson , Zhe Zhang , Chul Lee , Bach Bui , Ariya Rastrow