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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

New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Fei Long , Kai Gao

Discovering new intents is a crucial task in dialogue systems. Most existing methods are limited in transferring the prior knowledge from known intents to new intents. They also have difficulties in providing high-quality supervised signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Ting-En Lin , Rui Lyu

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

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

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

Intent discovery is the task of inferring latent intents from a set of unlabeled utterances, and is a useful step towards the efficient creation of new conversational agents. We show that recent competitive methods in intent discovery can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Maarten De Raedt , Fréderic Godin , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Discovering customer intentions is crucial for automated service agents, yet existing intent clustering methods often fall short due to their reliance on embedding distance metrics and neglect of underlying semantic structures. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mengze Hong , Wailing Ng , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Di Jiang

New Intent Discovery (NID) aims to recognize known and infer new intent categories with the help of limited labeled and large-scale unlabeled data. The task is addressed as a feature-clustering problem and recent studies augment instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shun Zhang , Jian Yang , Jiaqi Bai , Chaoran Yan , Tongliang Li , Zhao Yan , Zhoujun Li

The focus of this work is to investigate unsupervised approaches to overcome quintessential challenges in designing task-oriented dialog schema: assigning intent labels to each dialog turn (intent clustering) and generating a set of intents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jeiyoon Park , Yoonna Jang , Chanhee Lee , Heuiseok Lim

Identifying new user intents is an essential task in the dialogue system. However, it is hard to get satisfying clustering results since the definition of intents is strongly guided by prior knowledge. Existing methods incorporate prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ting-En Lin , Hua Xu , Hanlei Zhang

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

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate coherent text, they often struggle to recognise user intent behind queries. In contrast, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models interpret the purpose and key information of user input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yan Li , So-Eon Kim , Seong-Bae Park , Soyeon Caren Han

New Intent Discovery (NID) aims at detecting known and previously undefined categories of user intent by utilizing limited labeled and massive unlabeled data. Most prior works often operate under the unrealistic assumption that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shun Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Ying Mo , Jiaqi Bai , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li

New Intent Discovery (NID) strives to identify known and reasonably deduce novel intent groups in the open-world scenario. But current methods face issues with inaccurate pseudo-labels and poor representation learning, creating a negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shun Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Jian Yang , Changyu Ren , Jiaqi Bai , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li

In this paper, we propose Selection and Pooling with Large Language Models (SPILL), an intuitive and domain-adaptive method for intent clustering without fine-tuning. Existing embeddings-based clustering methods rely on a few labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 I-Fan Lin , Faegheh Hasibi , Suzan Verberne

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various fields with their exceptional capabilities in understanding, processing, and generating human-like text. This paper investigates the potential of LLMs in advancing Network Intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Shuo Yang , Xinran Zheng , Xinchen Zhang , Jinfeng Xu , Jinze Li , Donglin Xie , Weicai Long , Edith C. H. Ngai

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims at learning a model that transfers the common knowledge from a class-disjoint labelled dataset to another unlabelled dataset and discovers new classes (clusters) within it. Many methods, as well as elaborate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wenbin Li , Zhichen Fan , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

Identifying intents from dialogue utterances forms an integral component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Intent-related tasks are typically formulated either as a classification task, where the utterances are classified into predefined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bhavuk Singhal , Ashim Gupta , Shivasankaran V P , Amrith Krishna

To handle ambiguous and open-ended requests, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly trained to interact with users to surface intents they have not yet expressed (e.g., ask clarification questions). However, users are often ambiguous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tae Soo Kim , Yoonjoo Lee , Jaesang Yu , John Joon Young Chung , Juho Kim
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