Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers

10/17/2020
by   Shikib Mehri, et al.
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A key challenge of dialog systems research is to effectively and efficiently adapt to new domains. A scalable paradigm for adaptation necessitates the development of generalizable models that perform well in few-shot settings. In this paper, we focus on the intent classification problem which aims to identify user intents given utterances addressed to the dialog system. We propose two approaches for improving the generalizability of utterance classification models: (1) example-driven training and (2) observers. Example-driven training learns to classify utterances by comparing to examples, thereby using the underlying encoder as a sentence similarity model. Prior work has shown that BERT-like models tend to attribute a significant amount of attention to the [CLS] token, which we hypothesize results in diluted representations. Observers are tokens that are not attended to, and are an alternative to the [CLS] token. The proposed methods attain state-of-the-art results on three intent prediction datasets (Banking, Clinc, and HWU) in both the full data and few-shot (10 examples per intent) settings. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the proposed approach can transfer to new intents and across datasets without any additional training.

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