Challenge: Existing systems for speech-based dialogs have found the inadequacy of relying on simple classification techniques to accomplish the automation task.
Approach: They propose a Label-Aware BERT Attention Network (LABAN) for zero-shot multi-intent detection by encoding input utterances with BERT and building a label embedded space by considering embedded semantics in intent labels.
Outcome: The proposed approach can detect many unseen intent labels correctly on a few/zero-shot setting, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on five multi-intent datasets in normal cases.

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