InterSpeech 2021

Spoken Language Understanding I

Sequential End-to-End Intent and Slot Label Classification and Localization
(3 minutes introduction)

Yiran Cao (University of Waterloo, Canada), Nihal Potdar (University of Waterloo, Canada), Anderson R. Avila (Huawei Technologies, Canada)

DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants
(3 minutes introduction)

Deepak Muralidharan (Apple, USA), Joel Ruben Antony Moniz (Apple, USA), Weicheng Zhang (Apple, USA), Stephen Pulman (Apple, UK), Lin Li (Apple, USA), Megan Barnes (University of Washington, USA), Jingjing Pan (Apple, USA), Jason Williams (Apple, USA), Alex Acero (Apple, USA)

DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants
(longer introduction)

Deepak Muralidharan (Apple, USA), Joel Ruben Antony Moniz (Apple, USA), Weicheng Zhang (Apple, USA), Stephen Pulman (Apple, UK), Lin Li (Apple, USA), Megan Barnes (University of Washington, USA), Jingjing Pan (Apple, USA), Jason Williams (Apple, USA), Alex Acero (Apple, USA)

A Context-Aware Hierarchical BERT Fusion Network for Multi-turn Dialog Act Detection
(3 minutes introduction)

Ting-Wei Wu (Georgia Tech, USA), Ruolin Su (Georgia Tech, USA), Biing-Hwang Juang (Georgia Tech, USA)

Pre-training for Spoken Language Understanding with Joint Textual and Phonetic Representation Learning
(3 minutes introduction)

Qian Chen (Alibaba, China), Wen Wang (Alibaba, China), Qinglin Zhang (Alibaba, China)

Integrating Dialog History into End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding Systems
(3 minutes introduction)

Jatin Ganhotra (IBM, USA), Samuel Thomas (IBM, USA), Hong-Kwang J. Kuo (IBM, USA), Sachindra Joshi (IBM, USA), George Saon (IBM, USA), Zoltán Tüske (IBM, USA), Brian Kingsbury (IBM, USA)

Coreference Augmentation for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue State Tracking
(3 minutes introduction)

Ting Han (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Chongxuan Huang (Huawei Technologies, China), Wei Peng (Huawei Technologies, China)

Rethinking End-to-End Evaluation of Decomposable Tasks: A Case Study on Spoken Language Understanding
(3 minutes introduction)

Siddhant Arora (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Alissa Ostapenko (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Vijay Viswanathan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Siddharth Dalmia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Florian Metze (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Alan W. Black (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)