System and method for representing and resolving ambiguity in spoken dialogue systems
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A system for representing and resolving ambiguity in natural language text, comprising:
- a context tracker that places said natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs; and
a candidate scorer, associated with said context tracker, that adjusts a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system for, and method of, representing and resolving ambiguity in natural language text and a spoken dialogue system incorporating the system for representing and resolving ambiguity or the method. In one embodiment, the system for representing and resolving ambiguity includes: (1) a context tracker that places the natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs and (2) a candidate scorer, associated with the context tracker, that adjusts a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent.
-
Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A system for representing and resolving ambiguity in natural language text, comprising:
-
a context tracker that places said natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs; and
a candidate scorer, associated with said context tracker, that adjusts a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
-
-
8. A method of representing and resolving ambiguity in natural language text, comprising:
-
placing said natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs; and
adjusting a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
-
15. A spoken dialogue system, comprising:
-
a speech recognizer that recognizes spoken language received from a user;
a parser, coupled to said recognizer, that parses said recognized spoken language;
an interpreter that further processes said recognized spoken language to yield natural language text;
a context tracker that places said natural language text in context to yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs;
a candidate scorer, associated with said context tracker, that adjusts a confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent; and
a voice responder that generates spoken language back to said user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
-
Specification