Joint intent detection and slot filling with wheel-graph attention networks

Intent detection and slot filling are recognized as two very important tasks in a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. In order to model these two tasks at the same time, many joint models based on deep neural networks have been proposed recently and archived excellent results. In addition, graph neural network has made good achievements in the field of vision. Therefore, we combine these two advantages and propose a new joint model with a wheel-graph attention network (Wheel-GAT), which is able to model interrelated connections directly for single intent detection and slot filling. To construct a graph structure for utterances, we create intent nodes, slot nodes, and directed edges. Intent nodes can provide utterance-level semantic information for slot filling, while slot nodes can also provide local keyword information for intent detection. The two tasks promote each other and carry out end-to-end training at the same time. Experiments show that our proposed approach is superior to multiple baselines on ATIS and SNIPS datasets. Besides, we also demonstrate that using bi-directional encoder representation from transformer (BERT) model further boosts the performance of the SLU task.

Research on Spoken Language Understanding Based on Deep Learning

Aiming at solving the problem that the recognition effect of rare slot values in spoken language is poor, which affects the accuracy of oral understanding task, a spoken language understanding method is designed based on deep learning. The local features of semantic text are extracted and classified to make the classification results match the dialogue task. An intention recognition algorithm is designed for the classification results. Each datum has a corresponding intention label to complete the task of semantic slot filling. The attention mechanism is applied to the recognition of rare slot value information, the weight of hidden state and corresponding slot characteristics are obtained, and the updated slot value is used to represent the tracking state. An auxiliary gate unit is constructed between the upper and lower slots of historical dialogue, and the word vector is trained based on deep learning to complete the task of spoken language understanding. The simulation results show that the proposed method can realize multiple rounds of man-machine spoken language. Compared with the spoken language understanding methods based on cyclic network, context information, and label decomposition, it has higher accuracy and F1 value and has higher practical application value.