Joint Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Labeling for Goal-Oriented Dialog

Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy


Abstract
Neural network models have recently gained traction for sentence-level intent classification and token-based slot-label identification. In many real-world scenarios, users have multiple intents in the same utterance, and a token-level slot label can belong to more than one intent. We investigate an attention-based neural network model that performs multi-label classification for identifying multiple intents and produces labels for both intents and slot-labels at the token-level. We show state-of-the-art performance for both intent detection and slot-label identification by comparing against strong, recently proposed models. Our model provides a small but statistically significant improvement of 0.2% on the predominantly single-intent ATIS public data set, and 55% intent accuracy improvement on an internal multi-intent dataset.
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N19-1055
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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
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June
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2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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564–569
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-1055
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1055
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Rashmi Gangadharaiah and Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy. 2019. Joint Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Labeling for Goal-Oriented Dialog. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 564–569, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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