AI engineering glossary · NLP embeddings

What is slot filling?

Slot filling: Extracting the specific values needed to carry out a user's request, such as a city, date or amount, from their message. It is normally treated as sequence labelling with tags for each slot type.

Level: intermediateTopic: NLP embeddings

Slot filling: an example

In "Transfer 5000 rupees to Anil", the amount slot is 5000 and the recipient slot is Anil.

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