Intent Identification Using Few-Shot and Active Learning with User Feedback
摘要
Collaboration tools contain many intents in workplace conversation, and identifying these intents is important to increase workplace productivity. However, labelling these intents for a large collection of conversations is expensive and data availability for new intents is quite limited. The pre-trained models show outstanding results in text classification tasks and large language models have recently produced accurate models with few samples. We explored few-shot learning methods and active learning strategies for this problem. Our proposed method, “SetFit with AL” is a combination of Sentence Transformer Fine-tuning (SetFit) and active learning for intent identification. This method fine-tunes a sentence-transformer model to develop accurate models. The intent classification evaluation dataset was used to evaluate this method. The results show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art large language model GPT-3.5 and is comparable to GPT-4. This method also can utilize user feedback to adapt to new data and develop personalized models. Thus, the contribution of this paper is that fine-grained intents are identified using minimal data and the model is adaptable based on user feedback.