Challenge: Existing benchmarks for open-world intent classification focus on the second aspect of the problem.
Approach: They propose two datasets that include utterances useful for evaluating the robustness of open-world models to covariate shift.
Outcome: The proposed datasets provide a more realistic evaluation scenario for open-world intent classification in task-oriented dialog systems.

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