Structures for Spoken Language Understanding: A Two-Step Approach

Spoken language understanding (SLU) aims to map a user's speech into a semantic frame. Since most of the previous works use the semantic structures for SLU, we verify that the structure is valuable even for noisy input. We apply a structured prediction method to SLU problem with comparison to unstructured one. In addition, we present a combined method to embed long-distance dependency between entities in a cascaded manner. On air travel data, we show that our approach improves performance over baseline models.