SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package
This resource addresses the limited availability of public SLU datasets, providing a more challenging and diverse benchmark for researchers in spoken language understanding.
The paper introduces SLURP, a new Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) package. It includes a large, diverse English dataset across 18 domains, competitive baselines, and a new metric for entity labeling to facilitate error analysis.
Spoken Language Understanding infers semantic meaning directly from audio data, and thus promises to reduce error propagation and misunderstandings in end-user applications. However, publicly available SLU resources are limited. In this paper, we release SLURP, a new SLU package containing the following: (1) A new challenging dataset in English spanning 18 domains, which is substantially bigger and linguistically more diverse than existing datasets; (2) Competitive baselines based on state-of-the-art NLU and ASR systems; (3) A new transparent metric for entity labelling which enables a detailed error analysis for identifying potential areas of improvement. SLURP is available at https: //github.com/pswietojanski/slurp.