Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding
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Abstract (arXiv)
This paper presents the design of the machine learning architecture that underlies the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) a large scale Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables developers to extend the capabilities of Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa. At Amazon, the infrastructure powers over 25,000 skills deployed through the ASK, as well as AWS's Amazon Lex SLU Service. The ASK emphasizes flexibility, predictability and a rapid iteration cycle for third party developers. It imposes inductive biases that allow it to learn robust SLU models from extremely small and sparse datasets and, in doing so, removes significant barriers to entry for software developers and dialogue systems researchers.
Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 1 Nov 2017.
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- 2022Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistancecited by 15
- 2022Bottleneck Low-rank Transformers for Low-resource Spoken Language Understandingcited by 6
- 2021Deciding Whether to Ask Clarifying Questions in Large-Scale Spoken Language Understandingcited by 5
- 2022Hyperparameter-free Continuous Learning for Domain Classification in Natural Language Understandingcited by 4
- 2022Finstreder: Simple and fast Spoken Language Understanding with Finite State Transducers using modern Speech-to-Text modelscited by 2
- 2021Towards Continual Entity Learning in Language Models for Conversational Agentscited by 1
- 2022Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance13 Sep 2022
- 2022Finstreder: Simple and fast Spoken Language Understanding with Finite State Transducers using modern Speech-to-Text models29 Jun 2022
- 2022Bottleneck Low-rank Transformers for Low-resource Spoken Language Understanding28 Jun 2022
- 2022Hyperparameter-free Continuous Learning for Domain Classification in Natural Language Understanding5 Jan 2022
- 2021Deciding Whether to Ask Clarifying Questions in Large-Scale Spoken Language Understanding25 Sep 2021
- 2021Towards Continual Entity Learning in Language Models for Conversational Agents30 Jul 2021