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Furthermore, the<br \/>\ncontents of user queries as well as the clicked URLs provide information<br \/>\nabout user\u2019s intent. In this paper, we propose a variational<br \/>\nBayesian approach for modeling latent intents of user queries and<br \/>\nclicked URLs when available. We use this model to enhance supervised<br \/>\nintent classification of user queries from conversational interactions.<br \/>\nExperiments were run with large volumes of search queries<br \/>\nand show significant improvements over state-of-the-art systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intent detectors in state-of-the-art spoken language understanding systems are often trained with a small number of manually annotated examples collected from the application domain. Search query logs provide a large number of unlabeled queries that would be beneficial to improve such supervised classification. 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