A Novel Bi-directional Interrelated Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Haihong E, Peiqing Niu, Zhongfu Chen, Meina Song


Abstract
A spoken language understanding (SLU) system includes two main tasks, slot filling (SF) and intent detection (ID). The joint model for the two tasks is becoming a tendency in SLU. But the bi-directional interrelated connections between the intent and slots are not established in the existing joint models. In this paper, we propose a novel bi-directional interrelated model for joint intent detection and slot filling. We introduce an SF-ID network to establish direct connections for the two tasks to help them promote each other mutually. Besides, we design an entirely new iteration mechanism inside the SF-ID network to enhance the bi-directional interrelated connections. The experimental results show that the relative improvement in the sentence-level semantic frame accuracy of our model is 3.79% and 5.42% on ATIS and Snips datasets, respectively, compared to the state-of-the-art model.
Anthology ID:
P19-1544
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5467–5471
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1544
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1544
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Haihong E, Peiqing Niu, Zhongfu Chen, and Meina Song. 2019. A Novel Bi-directional Interrelated Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5467–5471, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Novel Bi-directional Interrelated Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling (E et al., ACL 2019)
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