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Approach: They propose a model that learns E2E SLU without speech-semantics pairs . they propose cross-modal selective self-training (CMSST) to address imbalance and noise issues .
Outcome: The proposed model learns E2E SLU without speech-semantics pairs . the proposed model requires the domains of speech-text and text-sensitization to match .

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