Syntax Matters: Towards Spoken Language Understanding via Syntax-Aware Attention (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on SLU systems have focused on integrating syntactic information into language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a model where attention scopes are constrained based on syntactic relationships. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on three datasets and can be integrated into other language models to further boost their performance. |
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