A system for selecting and presenting advertisements in response to processing natural language utterances, comprising: an input device that receives a natural language utterance containing at least one request at an input device; a speech recognition engine coupled to the input device, wherein the speech recognition engine recognizes one or more words or phrases in the natural language utterance; a conversational language processor coupled to the speech recognition engine, wherein the conversational language processor is configured to: interpret the recognized words or phrases, wherein interpreting the recognized words or phrases includes establishing a context for the natural language utterance; select an advertisement in the context established for the natural language utterance; and present the selected advertisement via an output device; and an adaptive misrecognition engine configured to determine that the conversational language incorrectly interpreted the words or phrases in response to detecting a predetermined event, wherein the conversational language processor reinterprets the words or phrases in response to the predetermined event. view more

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for providing a cooperative conversational voice user interface, the computer-executable instructions operable when executed to: receive an utterance at a voice input device, during a current conversation with a user, wherein the utterance includes one or more words that have different meanings in different contexts; accumulate short-term shared knowledge about the current conversation, wherein the short-term shared knowledge includes knowledge about the utterance received at the voice during the current conversation; accumulate long-term shared knowledge about the user, wherein the long-term shared knowledge includes knowledge about one or more past conversations with the user; identify a context associated with the utterance, wherein a conversational speech engine identifies the context associated with the utterance from the short-term shared knowledge and the long-term shared knowledge; establish an intended meaning for the utterance within the identified context, wherein the conversational speech engine establishes the intended meaning within the identified context to disambiguate an intent that the user had in speaking the one or more words that have the different meanings in the different contexts; and generate a response to the utterance, wherein the conversational speech engine grammatically or syntactically adapts the response based on the intended meaning established within the identified context. view more

A system providing natural language processing based on advertisements, the system comprising: one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more physical processors to: provide an advertisement associated with a product or service for presentation to a user; receive a natural language utterance of the user; and interpret the natural language utterance based on the advertisement and, responsive to the existence of a pronoun in the natural language utterance, determine whether the pronoun refers to one or more of the product or service or a provider of the product or service. view more

A system for providing voice commerce, the system comprising: one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more physical processors to:receive a user input comprising a natural language utterance;provide, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, the natural language utterance as an input to a speech recognition engine;obtain, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, one or more words or phrases recognized from the natural language utterance as an output of the speech recognition engine;determine, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, a context based at least on the one or more words or phrases;identify, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, the product or service to be purchased on behalf of the user based at least on the determined context;obtain payment information with which to pay for the product or service;obtain, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, shipping information with which to deliver the product or service, wherein the shipping information specifies a name or address of a recipient to which the product or service is to be delivered after the product or service is purchased; andprovide, without further user input after the receipt of the user input, a request for user confirmation to use the payment information and the shipping information for a purchase transaction for the product or service. view more