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STIL - Simultaneous Slot Filling, Translation, Intent Classification, and Language Identification: Initial Results using mBART on MultiATIS++

1 Dec 2020Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020archive 2025-07-28

Jack FitzGerald

Slot-filling, Translation, Intent classification, and Language identification, or STIL, is a newly-proposed task for multilingual Natural Language Understanding (NLU). By performing simultaneous slot filling and translation into a single output language (English in this case), some portion of downstream system components can be monolingual, reducing development and maintenance cost. Results are given using the multilingual BART model (Liu et al., 2020) fine-tuned on 7 languages using the MultiATIS++ dataset. When no translation is performed, mBART{'}s performance is comparable to the current state of the art system (Cross-Lingual BERT by Xu et al. (2020)) for the languages tested, with better average intent classification accuracy (96.07{\%} versus 95.50{\%}) but worse average slot F1 (89.87{\%} versus 90.81{\%}). When simultaneous translation is performed, average intent classification accuracy degrades by only 1.7{\%} relative and average slot F1 degrades by only 1.2{\%} relative.

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ClassificationIntent ClassificationLanguage IdentificationNatural Language UnderstandingSlot FillingTranslationintent-classificationslot-filling

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBARTBERTBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Linear DecayMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight DecayWordPiece

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