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Hauptverfasser: Bhalla, Arjun, Huang, Qi
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Bhalla, Arjun
Huang, Qi
author_facet Bhalla, Arjun
Huang, Qi
contents Intent classification is an important component of a functional Information Retrieval ecosystem. Many current approaches to intent classification, typically framed as a classification problem, can be problematic as intents are often hard to define and thus data can be difficult and expensive to annotate. The problem is exacerbated when we need to extend the intent classification system to support multiple and in particular low-resource languages. To address this, we propose casting intent classification as a query similarity search problem - we use previous example queries to define an intent, and a query similarity method to classify an incoming query based on the labels of its most similar queries in latent space. With the proposed approach, we are able to achieve reasonable intent classification performance for queries in low-resource languages in a zero-shot setting.
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spellingShingle Intent Classification on Low-Resource Languages with Query Similarity Search
Bhalla, Arjun
Huang, Qi
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Intent classification is an important component of a functional Information Retrieval ecosystem. Many current approaches to intent classification, typically framed as a classification problem, can be problematic as intents are often hard to define and thus data can be difficult and expensive to annotate. The problem is exacerbated when we need to extend the intent classification system to support multiple and in particular low-resource languages. To address this, we propose casting intent classification as a query similarity search problem - we use previous example queries to define an intent, and a query similarity method to classify an incoming query based on the labels of its most similar queries in latent space. With the proposed approach, we are able to achieve reasonable intent classification performance for queries in low-resource languages in a zero-shot setting.
title Intent Classification on Low-Resource Languages with Query Similarity Search
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18241