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Chat interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) enable interactivity and flexibility. However, when students interact with chat interfaces, they expect dialogue-driven navigation from the system and can express frustration and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ella Cutler , Zachary Levonian , S. Thomas Christie

Intent classification (IC) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, IC models often generalize poorly when training without sufficient annotated examples for each user intent. We propose a novel pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Mujeen Sung , James Gung , Elman Mansimov , Nikolaos Pappas , Raphael Shu , Salvatore Romeo , Yi Zhang , Vittorio Castelli

Traditional intent classification models are based on a pre-defined intent set and only recognize limited in-domain (IND) intent classes. But users may input out-of-domain (OOD) queries in a practical dialogue system. Such OOD queries can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Yanan Wu , Pei Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (TODS) often face the challenge of encountering new intents. New Intent Discovery (NID) is a crucial task that aims to identify these novel intents while maintaining the capability to recognize existing ones.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Fan , Jiashu Pu , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

Generalized Few-Shot Intent Detection (GFSID) is challenging and realistic because it needs to categorize both seen and novel intents simultaneously. Previous GFSID methods rely on the episodic learning paradigm, which makes it hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chaiyut Luoyiching , Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Rongsheng Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Nannan Zhou , Hanjing Su

In this paper, we investigate few-shot joint learning for dialogue language understanding. Most existing few-shot models learn a single task each time with only a few examples. However, dialogue language understanding contains two closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yutai Hou , Yongkui Lai , Cheng Chen , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Intent detection and slot filling are two fundamental tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. Multiple deep learning-based joint models have demonstrated excellent results on the two tasks. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Pengfei Wei , Bi Zeng , Wenxiong Liao

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

Since Searle's work deconstructing intent and intentionality in the realm of philosophy, the practical meaning of intent has received little attention in science and technology. Intentionality and context are both central to the scope of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mark Burgess

Intent detection is an essential component of task oriented dialogue systems. Over the years, extensive research has been conducted resulting in many state of the art models directed towards resolving user's intents in dialogue. A variety…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Pratik Jayarao , Aman Srivastava

We present a systematic study on multilingual and cross-lingual intent detection from spoken data. The study leverages a new resource put forth in this work, termed MInDS-14, a first training and evaluation resource for the intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daniela Gerz , Pei-Hao Su , Razvan Kusztos , Avishek Mondal , Michał Lis , Eshan Singhal , Nikola Mrkšić , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Ivan Vulić

Intent, a critical cognitive notion and mental state, is ubiquitous in human communication and problem-solving. Accurately understanding the underlying intent behind questions is imperative to reasoning towards correct answers. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuwei Yin , Giuseppe Carenini

Dialogue state tracking (DST) plays an essential role in task-oriented dialogue systems. However, user's input may contain implicit information, posing significant challenges for DST tasks. Additionally, DST data includes complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zihao Yi , Zhe Xu , Ying Shen

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

Understanding a user's query intent behind a search is critical for modern search engine success. Accurate query intent prediction allows the search engine to better serve the user's need by rendering results from more relevant categories.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiaowei Liu , Weiwei Guo , Huiji Gao , Bo Long

Systems like Voice-command based conversational agents are characterized by a pre-defined set of skills or intents to perform user specified tasks. In the course of time, newer intents may emerge requiring retraining. However, the newer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Self-attention networks (SAN) have shown promising performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) scenarios, especially in machine translation. One of the main points of SANs is the strength of capturing long-range and multi-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Sevinj Yolchuyeva , Géza Németh , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve multiple turns of information exchange. Due to the limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , Bruce Croft , Yongfeng Zhang , Johanne R. Trippas , Minghui Qiu

Novel intent class detection is an important problem in real world scenario for conversational agents for continuous interaction. Several research works have been done to detect novel intents in a mono-lingual (primarily English) texts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ankan Mullick