User Intent Classification using Memory Networks: A Comparative Analysis
  for a Limited Data Scenario
  In this report, we provide a comparative analysis of different techniques for
user intent classification towards the task of app recommendation. We analyse
the performance of different models and architectures for multi-label
classification over a dataset with a relative large number of classes and only
a handful examples of each class. We focus, in particular, on memory network
architectures, and compare how well the different versions perform under the
task constraints. Since the classifier is meant to serve as a module in a
practical dialog system, it needs to be able to work with limited training data
and incorporate new data on the fly. We devise a 1-shot learning task to test
the models under the above constraint. We conclude that relatively simple
versions of memory networks perform better than other approaches. Although, for
tasks with very limited data, simple non-parametric methods perform comparably,
without needing the extra training data.
