Humans commonly use speech to convey their ideas and intentions to each other. And while
the meaning of individual words is mostly fixed, the intended meaning of a full sentence can …

In this short paper we propose a data augmentation method for intent detection in zero-
resource domains. Existing data augmentation methods rely on few labelled examples for …

Determining the duration and length of a news event's impact on a company's performance
remains elusive for financial analysts. The complexity arises from the fact that the effects of …

Recognizing dialog acts of users is an essential component in building successful
conversational agents. In this work, we propose a dialog act (DA) classifier for two of our …

As dialog systems are increasingly used, a major challenge for building new ones is the lack
of annotated training data. The necessary data collection and annotation efforts are …