Efficient slot labelling

Abstract

Slot labelling is an essential component of any dialogue system, aiming to find important arguments in every user turn. Common approaches involve large pre-trained language models (PLMs) like BERT or RoBERTa, but they face challenges such as high computational requirements and dependence on pre-training data. In this work, we propose a lightweight method which performs on par or better than the state-of-the-art PLM-based methods, while having almost 10x less trainable parameters. This makes it especially applicable for real-life industry scenarios.