Intent classification, to identify the speaker's intention, and slot filling, to label each token
with a semantic type, are critical tasks in natural language understanding. Traditionally the …

Customer support is important to corporate operations, which involves dealing with
disgruntled customer and content customers that can have different requirements. As such, it …

Chatbots were an important research subject in the past. A chatbot is a computer program or
an artificial intelligence program that participates in a conversation via auditory or textual …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) based voice interaction system, as a new artificial
intelligence application, provides a new human–computer interaction mode. The more …

Avatar Therapy (AT) is a modern therapeutic alternative for patients with schizophrenia
suffering from persistent auditory verbal hallucinations. Its intrinsic therapeutical process is …

In this paper, we propose Stacked DeBERT, short for Stacked Denoising Bidirectional
Encoder Representations from T ransformers. This novel model improves robustness in …

Recent advances in Deep Learning have led to a significant performance increase on
several NLP tasks, however, the models become more and more computationally …

Deep neural networks have demonstrated their superior performance in almost every
Natural Language Processing task, however, their increasing complexity raises concerns. A …

Intent recognition is one of the most crucial tasks in NLU systems, which are nowadays
especially important for designing intelligent conversation. We propose a novel approach to …

In light of the millions of households that have adopted intelligent assistant powered
devices, multi-turn dialogue has become an important field of inquiry. Most current methods …