arxiv: 2605.10241 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.LG

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Building Korean linguistic resource for NLU data generation of banking app CS dialog system

Jeongwoo Yoon , On-yu Park , Changhoe Hwang , Gwanghoon Yoo , Eric Laporte , Jeesun Nam

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keywords Korean NLUdialog systemsdata generationlocal grammar graphsbanking customer serviceintent classificationtopic extraction

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Three linguistic patterns encoded in local grammar graphs generate annotated Korean training data for banking customer service dialog models.

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The paper constructs a linguistic resource called FIAD to produce annotated training data for natural language understanding in Korean banking app customer service dialogs. The authors examine a corpus of banking app reviews and identify three recurring patterns in user requests: TOPIC involving an ENTITY and FEATURE, EVENT, and DISCOURSE MARKER. These patterns are represented using Local Grammar Graphs to automatically create diverse examples of intents and entities. Models trained on the resulting data achieve intent classification accuracies between 0.91 and 0.95 and topic extraction accuracies between 0.83 and 0.86, showing the generated data supports practical NLU performance.

Core claim

By representing the three linguistic patterns (TOPIC (ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, and DISCOURSE MARKER) in LGGs, we generate annotated data covering diverse intents and entities, as shown by model performances of DIET-only (Intent: 0.91 / Topic: 0.83), DIET+HANBERT (0.94/0.85), DIET+KoBERT (0.94/0.86), and DIET+KorBERT (0.95/0.84).

What carries the argument

Local Grammar Graphs (LGGs) that encode the three linguistic patterns identified from banking app reviews to produce annotated NLU training examples.

If this is right

Training on the generated data allows intent classification to reach accuracies from 0.91 with a basic model to 0.95 with a Korean BERT variant.
Topic extraction combining entities and features achieves accuracies from 0.83 to 0.86 across the tested models.
The resource reduces reliance on large-scale manual annotation by automatically producing varied examples from the identified patterns.
The approach demonstrates that pattern-based generation can yield training sets suitable for domain-specific Korean NLU tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same pattern-to-graph method could be tested on user logs collected directly from deployed banking apps to check real-world coverage.
If new utterance types appear outside the three patterns, the resource would need expansion to maintain performance on live customer interactions.
Similar Local Grammar Graph encodings might be applied to generate data for related domains such as insurance or investment chat systems.

Load-bearing premise

The three linguistic patterns found in a corpus of banking app reviews are sufficient to generate training data that covers the full diversity of real user utterances in Korean banking customer service.

What would settle it

A set of real banking app user utterances that cannot be parsed by any combination of the three patterns, resulting in missing intents or entities in the generated dataset.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.10241 by Changhoe Hwang, Eric Laporte, Gwanghoon Yoo, Jeesun Nam, Jeongwoo Yoon, On-yu Park.

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Substituting {ENTITY} Submodules Category EVENT Submodules # of patterns Account create, sign-in, sign-out, etc. 510 Banking Product send, take, put, etc. 924 Financial Product buy, sell, management, etc. 454 App install, upload, pay, etc. 942 Total 2,830 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

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Natural language understanding (NLU) is integral to task-oriented dialog systems, but demands a considerable amount of annotated training data to increase the coverage of diverse utterances. In this study, we report the construction of a linguistic resource named FIAD (Financial Annotated Dataset) and its use to generate a Korean annotated training data for NLU in the banking customer service (CS) domain. By an empirical examination of a corpus of banking app reviews, we identified three linguistic patterns occurring in Korean request utterances: TOPIC (ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, and DISCOURSE MARKER. We represented them in LGGs (Local Grammar Graphs) to generate annotated data covering diverse intents and entities. To assess the practicality of the resource, we evaluate the performances of DIET-only (Intent: 0.91 /Topic [entity+feature]: 0.83), DIET+ HANBERT (I:0.94/T:0.85), DIET+ KoBERT (I:0.94/T:0.86), and DIET+ KorBERT (I:0.95/T:0.84) models trained on FIAD-generated data to extract various types of semantic items.

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The paper builds FIAD using local grammar graphs on three patterns from Korean banking reviews to generate NLU data and reports solid F1 scores on the synthetic test set, but the evaluation does not check coverage against real customer service utterances.

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This paper builds FIAD by identifying three patterns in Korean banking app reviews and using local grammar graphs to generate annotated NLU training data for customer service dialogs. The models trained on it achieve intent F1 scores between 0.91 and 0.95 and topic scores from 0.83 to 0.86 across the different setups. They do solid work on the front end by examining the review corpus to spot the TOPIC, EVENT, and DISCOURSE MARKER patterns and then formalizing them for data generation. This is a practical step for a language like Korean where off-the-shelf resources may not match the banking domain well. The side-by-side results with DIET and the Korean BERT models give a clear picture of the gains from adding the language models. The soft spot is the test setup. Since the evaluation uses data produced by the same LGG process, the scores show that the models can handle the generated distribution. There is no sign in the abstract of a separate test on authentic, unseen Korean banking customer service utterances, so the assumption that these patterns cover real diversity stays untested. More details on the amount of data generated and the train-test splits would also help assess the scale. This is aimed at people developing task-oriented dialog systems in Korean or other languages with limited annotated data. Applied researchers or industry teams working on domain-specific NLU would get the most out of the resource and the generation method. It deserves a serious referee. The contribution is concrete and the results are reported, so review can focus on strengthening the generalization evidence and filling in the missing experimental details. Recommendation: Send it for peer review.

Referee Report

1 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports the construction of the FIAD linguistic resource for Korean NLU in banking customer-service dialogs. From an empirical analysis of banking-app reviews, the authors identify three patterns (TOPIC(ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, DISCOURSE MARKER), encode them as Local Grammar Graphs (LGGs), and use the graphs to generate annotated training data. They then train DIET-only and three DIET+BERT-variant models on the generated data and report intent F1 scores of 0.91–0.95 and topic (entity+feature) F1 scores of 0.83–0.86.

Significance. If the generated data truly captures the distribution of real user utterances, the work supplies a reproducible, linguistically grounded method for bootstrapping NLU resources in a low-resource domain and language. The explicit reporting of concrete F1 numbers across four model configurations and the empirical derivation of the three patterns from a domain corpus are clear strengths.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: model performances (DIET-only Intent 0.91/Topic 0.83 up to DIET+KorBERT Intent 0.95/Topic 0.84) are obtained exclusively by training and testing on FIAD-generated data. Because no results on an independent corpus of authentic, previously unseen banking-app CS utterances are provided, the central claim that the three LGG-encoded patterns suffice to cover real utterance diversity is not directly tested.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: the description omits the total volume of generated utterances, the train/test split ratios, any baseline systems, and error analysis, all of which are needed to interpret the reported F1 scores.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the major comment on evaluation methodology below and will make revisions to clarify the scope of our claims.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: model performances (DIET-only Intent 0.91/Topic 0.83 up to DIET+KorBERT Intent 0.95/Topic 0.84) are obtained exclusively by training and testing on FIAD-generated data. Because no results on an independent corpus of authentic, previously unseen banking-app CS utterances are provided, the central claim that the three LGG-encoded patterns suffice to cover real utterance diversity is not directly tested.

Authors: We agree that direct testing on an independent, previously unseen corpus of authentic banking-app CS utterances would provide stronger evidence that the three LGG-encoded patterns fully capture real utterance diversity. The current evaluation instead demonstrates that the generated data is internally consistent and sufficient for training high-performing DIET-based models. The patterns themselves were derived empirically from a corpus of real banking-app reviews, and the LGGs were constructed to encode the observed syntactic and semantic structures (TOPIC(ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, DISCOURSE MARKER) while allowing controlled variation. We will revise the abstract and add a dedicated limitations paragraph to state explicitly that the reported F1 scores validate the quality and utility of FIAD-generated data for bootstrapping NLU resources rather than claiming exhaustive coverage of all possible real utterances. We will also outline plans for future work involving collection of a held-out real test set. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical resource construction with measured outcomes

full rationale

The paper reports an empirical workflow: corpus examination of banking app reviews to identify three patterns (TOPIC(ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, DISCOURSE MARKER), representation of those patterns in LGGs, generation of annotated training data, and direct measurement of model F1 scores (DIET-only, DIET+HANBERT, etc.) on the resulting dataset. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central results are presented as observed performances rather than tautological outputs of the inputs. The skeptic concern about coverage of real utterances is a question of external validity, not circularity in the derivation chain.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim depends on the domain assumption that the three observed patterns are representative enough to generate useful training data; no free parameters or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (1)

domain assumption The three linguistic patterns (TOPIC (ENTITY, FEATURE), EVENT, and DISCOURSE MARKER) identified from banking app reviews sufficiently cover diverse user utterances in the Korean banking CS domain.
Invoked to justify that LGG-generated data will increase coverage of intents and entities.

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