{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/large-language-models-for-expansion-of-spoken","title":"Large Language Models for Expansion of Spoken Language Understanding Systems to New Languages","arxiv_id":"2404.02588","date":"2024-04-03","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jakub Hoscilowicz","Pawel Pawlowski","Marcin Skorupa","Marcin Sowański","Artur Janicki"],"abstract":"Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) models are a core component of voice assistants (VA), such as Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline designed to extend SLU systems to new languages, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) that we fine-tune for machine translation of slot-annotated SLU training data. Our approach improved on the MultiATIS++ benchmark, a primary multi-language SLU dataset, in the cloud scenario using an mBERT model. Specifically, we saw an improvement in the Overall Accuracy metric: from 53% to 62.18%, compared to the existing state-of-the-art method, Fine and Coarse-grained Multi-Task Learning Framework (FC-MTLF). In the on-device scenario (tiny and not pretrained SLU), our method improved the Overall Accuracy from 5.31% to 22.06% over the baseline Global-Local Contrastive Learning Framework (GL-CLeF) method. Contrary to both FC-MTLF and GL-CLeF, our LLM-based machine translation does not require changes in the production architecture of SLU. Additionally, our pipeline is slot-type independent: it does not require any slot definitions or examples.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02588v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02588v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"large-language-models-for-expansion-of-spoken","repo_url":"https://github.com/samsung/mt-llm-nlu","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"contrastive-learning","task_name":"Contrastive Learning"},{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"multi-task-learning","task_name":"Multi-Task Learning"},{"task_slug":"spoken-language-understanding","task_name":"Spoken Language Understanding"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"contrastive-learning","method_name":"Contrastive Learning"},{"method_slug":"mbert","method_name":"mBERT"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}