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Intent detection with semantically similar fine-grained intents is a challenging task. To address it, we reformulate intent detection as a question-answering retrieval task by treating utterances and intent names as questions and answers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Asaf Yehudai , Matan Vetzler , Yosi Mass , Koren Lazar , Doron Cohen , Boaz Carmeli

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

In today's digitally driven world, dialogue systems play a pivotal role in enhancing user interactions, from customer service to virtual assistants. In these dialogues, it is important to identify user's goals automatically to resolve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Juan A. Rodriguez , Nicholas Botzer , David Vazquez , Christopher Pal , Marco Pedersoli , Issam Laradji

Intent Detection is one of the core tasks of dialog systems. Few-shot Intent Detection is challenging due to limited number of annotated utterances for novel classes. Generalized Few-shot intent detection is more realistic but challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ayush Kumar , Vijit Malik , Jithendra Vepa

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

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

Intent detection and slot filling are critical tasks in spoken and natural language understanding for task-oriented dialog systems. In this work we describe our participation in the slot and intent detection for low-resource language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sang Yun Kwon , Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Identifying user intents from natural language utterances is a crucial step in conversational systems that has been extensively studied as a supervised classification problem. However, in practice, new intents emerge after deploying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 A. B. Siddique , Fuad Jamour , Luxun Xu , Vagelis Hristidis

Building a machine learning driven spoken dialog system for goal-oriented interactions involves careful design of intents and data collection along with development of intent recognition models and dialog policy learning algorithms. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Saurav Sahay , Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Haroon Syed , Lama Nachman

In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar. We present a simple yet effective few-shot intent detection schema via contrastive pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jianguo Zhang , Trung Bui , Seunghyun Yoon , Xiang Chen , Zhiwei Liu , Congying Xia , Quan Hung Tran , Walter Chang , Philip Yu

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

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

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

Intent detection of spoken queries is a challenging task due to their noisy structure and short length. To provide additional information regarding the query and enhance the performance of intent detection, we propose a method for semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eyup Halit Yilmaz , Cagri Toraman

Traditional relational data interfaces require precise structured queries over potentially complex schemas. These rigid data retrieval mechanisms pose hurdles for non-expert users, who typically lack language expertise and are unfamiliar…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Anna Fariha , Alexandra Meliou

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

Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection (MID) is crucial for dialogue systems, aiming to detect multiple intents of utterances in low-resource dialogue domains. Previous studies focus on a two-stage pipeline. They first learn representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shiman Zhao , Shangyuan Li , Wei Chen , Tengjiao Wang , Jiahui Yao , Jiabin Zheng , Kam Fai Wong

Zero-shot intent classification is a vital and challenging task in dialogue systems, which aims to deal with numerous fast-emerging unacquainted intents without annotated training data. To obtain more satisfactory performance, the crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Han Liu , Siyang Zhao , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Junjie Sun , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

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 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
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