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Atta Norouzian

2 accepted papers

2024

A new approach for fine-tuning sentence transformers for intent classification and out-of-scope detection tasks

EMNLP 2024industry

In virtual assistant (VA) systems it is important to reject or redirect user queries that fall outside the scope of the system. One of the most accurate approaches for out-of-scope (OOS) rejection is to combine it with the task of intent classification on in-scope queries, and to use methods based o…

2019

Exploring Attention Mechanism for Acoustic-based Classification of Speech Utterances into System-directed and Non-system-directed

ICASSP 2019accepted

Voice controlled virtual assistants (VAs) are now available in smartphones, cars, and standalone devices in homes. In most cases, the user needs to first "wake-up" the VA by saying a particular word/phrase every time he/she wants the VA to do something. Eliminating the need for saying the wake-up wo…

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