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Effective Spoken Language Labeling with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
2 points by Katydid on Jun 26, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A deep memory network reads each word in a spoken request together with the long stretch of words around it, then tags every word with its meaning. It beat earlier probabilistic labeling systems on two standard test sets, one English and one French.

Abstract

Understanding spoken language is a highly complex problem, which can be decomposed into several simpler tasks. In this paper, we focus on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), the module of spoken dialog systems responsible for extracting a semantic interpretation from the user utterance. The task is treated as a labeling problem. In the past, SLU has been performed with a wide variety of probabilistic models. The rise of neural networks, in the last couple of years, has opened new interesting research directions in this domain. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in particular are able not only to represent several pieces of information as embeddings but also, thanks to their recurrent architecture, to encode as embeddings relatively long contexts. Such long contexts are in general out of reach for models previously used for SLU. In this paper we propose novel RNNs architectures for SLU which outperform previous ones. Starting from a published idea as base block, we design new deep RNNs achieving state-of-the-art results on two widely used corpora for SLU: ATIS (Air Traveling Information System), in English, and MEDIA (Hotel information and reservation in France), in French.

Marco Dinarelli, Yoann Dupont, Isabelle Tellier
arXiv:1706.06896 · cs.CL · submitted Jun 20, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · 8 pages. Rejected from IJCAI 2017, good remarks overall, but slightly off-topic as from global meta-reviews. Recommendations: 8, 6, 6, 4. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.01740

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