Papers by Maragathamani Boothalingam
Zero-shot Slot Filling in the Age of LLMs for Dialogue Systems (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for zero-shot slot filling focus on text data, overlooking conversational data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for automatic data annotation with slot induction and black-box knowledge distillation from a teacher LLM to a smaller model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing models on internal datasets by 26% relative increase in F1 score. |