Rotem Mordoch
Author directory2026
Mosaic: Automated Intent Description Generation for Multi-Label Classification
Ajay Chatterjee | Eric Crestan | Raunak Saha | Rotem Mordoch | Swarnangsu Acharyya
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Ajay Chatterjee | Eric Crestan | Raunak Saha | Rotem Mordoch | Swarnangsu Acharyya
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Traditional intent classifiers map utterances directly to intent categories using labeled examples. In contrast, LLM-assisted zero-shot intent classifiers rely on natural language descriptions alongside intent labels to determine the most appropriate categories for a given utterance. As intent taxonomies grow and evolve, descriptions must define clear boundaries among overlapping intent categories. Maintaining them is costly because it requires domain expertise and continual updates to keep pace with changing product and user behavior. We present MOSAIC (Multi-label Ontology Synthesis for Automated Intent Classification), a deployed system that automatically generates and updates intent descriptions for an existing taxonomy. MOSAIC analyzes unlabeled user utterances to identify coherent clusters. It associates cluster-level evidence with the existing intent taxonomy. Then, it synthesizes discriminative descriptions that define each category’s semantic boundary. On a 140-class production deployment, MOSAIC approaches the quality of expert-written descriptions while reducing taxonomy revision time from 2-4 weeks to less than 30 minutes. On the public NLU++ and Multi³NLU++ benchmark datasets, MOSAIC-generated descriptions do match or exceed the performance of expert-written descriptions.