Zero-Shot Spoken Language Understanding via Large Language Models: A Preliminary Study (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results in zero-shot settings, which motivates us to explore prompt-based methods. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage framework which transforms the SLU task into a question-answering problem by directly prompting LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be built by directly prompting LLMs to understand user needs without training data. |
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