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What is Intent?

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In short

Goal or intention detected in a user's utterance (in conversational NLP).

Explained

Intent is the user's goal or intention extracted from their input—e.g., 'book a flight' or 'request a refund.' Intent recognition drives routing and response selection in chatbots and voicebots.

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