EMNLP 2022main5 citations

UniNL: Aligning Representation Learning with Scoring Function for OOD Detection via Unified Neighborhood Learning

Yutao Mou, Pei Wang, Keqing He, Yanan Wu, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Weiran Xu

Abstract

Detecting out-of-domain (OOD) intents from user queries is essential for avoiding wrong operations in task-oriented dialogue systems. The key challenge is how to distinguish in-domain (IND) and OOD intents. Previous methods ignore the alignment between representation learning and scoring function, limiting the OOD detection performance. In this paper, we propose a unified neighborhood learning framework (UniNL) to detect OOD intents. Specifically, we design a KNCL objective for representation learning, and introduce a KNN-based scoring function for OOD detection. We aim to align representation learning with scoring function. Experiments and analysis on two benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of our method.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{mou-etal-2022-uninl,
    title = "{U}ni{NL}: Aligning Representation Learning with Scoring Function for {OOD} Detection via Unified Neighborhood Learning",
    author = "Mou, Yutao  and
      Wang, Pei  and
      He, Keqing  and
      Wu, Yanan  and
      Wang, Jingang  and
      Wu, Wei  and
      Xu, Weiran",
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.494/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.494",
    pages = "7317--7325"
}