Multilingual intent recognition

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to access one or more intents and associated entities from limited amount of speech to text training data in a single language;
• program instructions to identify candidate speech to text training data from one or more other languages, each language differing from the single language based on the accessed intents and associated entities;
• program instructions to pool shared parameters from the identified candidate speech to text training data with the limited amount of speech to text training data in the single language;
• program instructions to train a neural network using the pooled shared parameters from the identified candidate speech to text training data and the limited amount of speech to text training data in the single language;
• program instructions to, in response to receiving media containing speech associated with an unidentified language, identify, in real time, at least one known language and domain that represents a topic discussed in the received media;
• program instructions to identify language independent intent from the identified language using the pooled shared parameters and adding a respective label to the identified language and language independent intent;
• and
• program instructions to adapt the trained neural network to specific domains within the same language by replacing language specific parameters of the trained neural network with a new domain and respective language specific layer while maintaining shared layers.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to access one or more intents and associated entities from limited amount of speech to text training data in a single language;
• program instructions to identify candidate speech to text training data from one or more other languages, each language differing from the single language based on the accessed intents and associated entities;
• program instructions to pool shared parameters from the identified candidate speech to text training data with the limited amount of speech to text training data in the single language;
• program instructions to train a neural network using the pooled shared parameters from the identified candidate speech to text training data and the limited amount of speech to text training data in the single language;
• program instructions to, in response to receiving media containing speech associated with an unidentified language, identify, in real time, at least one known language and domain that represents a topic discussed in the received media;
• program instructions to identify language independent intent from the identified language using the pooled shared parameters and adding a respective label to the identified language and language independent intent;
• and
• program instructions to adapt the trained neural network to specific domains within the same language by replacing language specific parameters of the trained neural network with a new domain and respective language specific layer while maintaining shared layers.