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Intent Detection
121 papers with code · 19 benchmarks · 25 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Intent Detection is a task of determining the underlying purpose or goal behind a user's search query given a context. The task plays a significant role in search and recommendations. A traditional approach for intent detection implies using an intent detector model to classify user search query into predefined intent categories, given a context. One of the key challenges of the task implies identifying user intents for cold-start sessions, i.e., search sessions initiated by a non-logged-in or unrecognized user.
Source: Analyzing and Predicting Purchase Intent in E-commerce: Anonymous vs. Identified Customers
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28 Feb 2019 16 repositories listed Syntology ran 9 of 32 samples · 23 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Intent classification and slot filling are two essential tasks for natural language understanding.
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6 Sep 2016 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 5 samples · 3 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)Attention-based encoder-decoder neural network models have recently shown promising results in machine translation and speech recognition.
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10 Mar 2020 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 6 samples · 6 unverifiedBuilding conversational systems in new domains and with added functionality requires resource-efficient models that work under low-data regimes (i.
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16 Jun 2021 4 repositories listedMahalanobis distance (MD) is a simple and popular post-processing method for detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs in neural networks.
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2 Sep 2018 4 repositories listedUser intent detection plays a critical role in question-answering and dialog systems.
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22 Dec 2018 3 repositories listedBeing able to recognize words as slots and detect the intent of an utterance has been a keen issue in natural language understanding.
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1 Mar 2023 2 repositories listedTo evaluate the effectiveness of our benchmark, we employ state-of-the-art methods for intent detection and slot filling.
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19 Nov 2022 2 repositories listedIn recent years, research in software security has concentrated on identifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts to prevent significant losses of crypto assets on blockchains.
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15 Aug 2022 2 repositories listedIn our evaluation, we first analyze the quality of the model after adaptive fine-tuning on known classes.
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13 Sep 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar.
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13 Sep 2021 2 repositories listedIt is composed of two main modules: open intent detection and open intent discovery.
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27 Jul 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverifiedUnknown intent detection aims to identify the out-of-distribution (OOD) utterance whose intent has never appeared in the training set.
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15 May 2021 2 repositories listedTo tackle the challenge, we propose a joint learning approach, with English SLU training data and non-English auxiliary tasks from raw text, syntax and translation for transfer.
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6 Jul 2020 2 repositories listedPre-trained language models have achieved huge improvement on many NLP tasks.
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16 Sep 2019 2 repositories listedSpoken Language Understanding (SLU) mainly involves two tasks, intent detection and slot filling, which are generally modeled jointly in existing works.
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5 Sep 2019 2 repositories listedIn our framework, we adopt a joint model with Stack-Propagation which can directly use the intent information as input for slot filling, thus to capture the intent semantic knowledge.
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2 Aug 2019 2 repositories listedIn this paper we present DELTA, a deep learning based language technology platform.
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30 Jun 2019 2 repositories listedThe joint model for the two tasks is becoming a tendency in SLU.
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1 Jun 2018 2 repositories listedAttention-based recurrent neural network models for joint intent detection and slot filling have achieved the state-of-the-art performance, while they have independent attention weights.
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10 Jun 2025 1 repository listedIntent detection aims to identify user intents from natural language inputs, where supervised methods rely heavily on labeled in-domain (IND) data and struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) intents, limiting their practical…
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16 May 2025 1 repository listedIn contrast to the current state-of-the-art (SoTA) noninvasive approaches, our context-aware, multimodal shared-autonomy framework integrates deep reinforcement learning algorithms to blend limited low-dimensional user…
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24 Feb 2025 1 repository listedIn this demonstration, we develop IntentRec4Maps, a system to recognise users' intentions in interactive maps for real-world navigation.
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19 Feb 2025 1 repository listedIn this paper, we propose a CPS data collection protocol and create a new CPS dataset, called PSCon, which assists product search through conversations with human-like language.
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7 Jan 2025 1 repository listedWe participate in the VarDial 2025 shared task on slot and intent detection in Norwegian varieties, and compare multiple set-ups: varying the training data (English, Norwegian, or dialectal Norwegian), injecting…
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7 Jan 2025 1 repository listedReliable slot and intent detection (SID) is crucial in natural language understanding for applications like digital assistants.
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2 Oct 2024 1 repository listedOur results indicate that a two-step approach of a generative LLM in zero-shot setting and a smaller sequence-to-sequence model can provide high-quality data for intent detection.
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15 Aug 2024 1 repository listedThis paper introduces a novel approach, MIDAS, leveraging a multi-level intent, domain, and slot knowledge distillation for multi-turn NLU.
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12 Jul 2024 1 repository listedThis paper presents a novel and comprehensive solution to enhance both the robustness and efficiency of question answering (QA) systems through supervised contrastive learning (SCL).
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26 May 2024 1 repository listedNavigating the complexities of language diversity is a central challenge in developing robust natural language processing systems, especially in specialized domains like banking.
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19 Apr 2024 1 repository listedThe developed multi-source UDA theory is theoretical and the generalization error on target subject is guaranteed.
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