| Challenge: | Existing methods for detecting unknown intents are difficult due to lack of examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for detecting unknown intents using bidirectional long-term memory networks with the margin loss as the feature extractor. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can yield consistent improvements on two benchmark datasets. |
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