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Home/Glossary/Intent Classification
AI Glossary Term

What does “Intent Classification” mean?

Definition

Predicting the user's purpose from a text query to route it correctly.

Related terms

Retrieval
Finding relevant documents or records from a knowledge source for a query.
Self-Supervised Learning
Learning representations from unlabeled data by predicting masked or transformed parts.
Retrieval Precision
The proportion of retrieved items that are relevant to the user's query.
SentencePiece
A language-agnostic tokenizer that learns subword units directly from raw text without pre-splitting on whitespace.
Multi-Query Retrieval
A retrieval technique that rewrites the user query into several variants to improve recall.
In-Context Learning
A model's ability to follow patterns from examples provided directly in the prompt.

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See also

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