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Intent detection and slot filling are two main tasks for building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. The two tasks are closely related and the information of one task can be utilized in the other task. Previous studies either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Libo Qin , Tailu Liu , Wanxiang Che , Bingbing Kang , Sendong Zhao , Ting Liu

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is one essential step in building a dialogue system. Due to the expensive cost of obtaining the labeled data, SLU suffers from the data scarcity problem. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Haitao Lin , Lu Xiang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Intent, typically clearly formulated and planned, functions as a cognitive framework for communication and problem-solving. This paper introduces the concept of Speaking with Intent (SWI) in large language models (LLMs), where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuwei Yin , EunJeong Hwang , Giuseppe Carenini

Slot filling and intent detection have become a significant theme in the field of natural language understanding. Even though slot filling is intensively associated with intent detection, the characteristics of the information required for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yanfei Hui , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Fengying Yu , Tianbo Wu , Jing Xiao

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…

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

The widespread use of conversational and question answering systems made it necessary to improve the performances of speaker intent detection and understanding of related semantic slots, i.e., Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). Often,…

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In recent years, fostered by deep learning technologies and by the high demand for conversational AI, various approaches have been proposed that address the capacity to elicit and understand user's needs in task-oriented dialogue systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Samuel Louvan , Bernardo Magnini

Detecting the user's intent and finding the corresponding slots among the utterance's words are important tasks in natural language understanding. Their interconnected nature makes their joint modeling a standard part of training such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

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,…

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) consists of two sub-tasks: intent detection (ID) and slot filling (SF). Given its broad range of real-world applications, enhancing SLU for practical deployment is increasingly critical. Profile-based SLU…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Di Wu , Liting Jiang , Ruiyu Fang , Bianjing , Hongyan Xie , Haoxiang Su , Hao Huang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Xuelong Li

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) typically comprises of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) followed by a natural language understanding (NLU) module. The two modules process signals in a blocking sequential fashion, i.e., the NLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Naveen Kumar , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Intent classification and slot filling are two critical tasks for natural language understanding. Traditionally the two tasks proceeded independently. However, more recently joint models for intent classification and slot filling have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Huichun Li , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

Spoken language understanding (SLU) topic has seen a lot of progress these last three years, with the emergence of end-to-end neural approaches. Spoken language understanding refers to natural language processing tasks related to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Sahar Ghannay , Antoine Caubrière , Salima Mdhaffar , Gaëlle Laperrière , Bassam Jabaian , Yannick Estève

Intent Recognition and Slot Identification are crucial components in spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards both these tasks in the context of low resourced and unwritten languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Akshat Gupta , Olivia Deng , Akruti Kushwaha , Saloni Mittal , William Zeng , Sai Krishna Rallabandi , Alan W Black

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) has progressed from traditional single-task methods to large audio language model (LALM) solutions. Yet, most existing speech benchmarks focus on single-speaker or isolated tasks, overlooking the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Shuai Wang , Zhaokai Sun , Zhennan Lin , Chengyou Wang , Zhou Pan , Lei Xie

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems consist of several machine learning components operating together (e.g. intent classification, named entity recognition and resolution). Deep learning models have obtained state of the art results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Akshit Tyagi , Varun Sharma , Rahul Gupta , Lynn Samson , Nan Zhuang , Zihang Wang , Bill Campbell

We consider the problem of spoken language understanding (SLU) of extracting natural language intents and associated slot arguments or named entities from speech that is primarily directed at voice assistants. Such a system subsumes both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Milind Rao , Anirudh Raju , Pranav Dheram , Bach Bui , Ariya Rastrow

Slot filling is a crucial subtask in spoken language understanding (SLU), traditionally implemented as a cascade of speech recognition followed by one or more natural language understanding (NLU) components. The recent advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Kadri Hacioglu , Manjunath K E , Andreas Stolcke

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in language generation and general task performance. However, their application to spoken language understanding (SLU) remains challenging, particularly for token-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shangjian Yin , Peijie Huang , Jiatian Chen , Haojing Huang , Yuhong Xu