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Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding

This paper presents the design of the machine learning architecture that underlies the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) a large scale Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables developers to extend the capabilities of …

Zero-Shot Learning Across Heterogeneous Overlapping Domains

We present a zero-shot learning approach for text classification, predicting which natural language understanding domain can handle a given utterance. Our approach can predict domains at runtime that did not exist at training time. We achieve this …