Joint model for intent and entity recognition

Abstract: The semantic understanding of natural dialogues composes of several parts. Some of them, like intent classification and entity detection, have a crucial role in deciding the next steps in handling user input. Handling each task as an individual problem can be wasting of training resources, and also each problem can benefit from each other. This paper tackles these problems as one. Our new model, which combine intent and entity recognition into one system, is achieving better metrics in both tasks with lower training requirements than solving each task separately. We also optimize the model based on the inputs.