SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, DATA BASE FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND CONSTRUCTING METHOD OF DATABASE FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE

• US 20140180688A1
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWON, Oh-yun, KIM, Jae-cheol, LEE, Cheon-seong, YOON, Seung-il
• Application Number:
  US14/025,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20140180688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/236
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/06 Creation of reference templates; Training of speech recognition systems, e.g. adaptation to the characteristics of the speaker's voice G10L15/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1822 Parsing for meaning understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/0638 Interactive procedures

Abstract

A speech recognition device comprises, a corpus processor which includes a refiner to classify collected corpora into domains corresponding to functions of the speech recognition device, and an extractor which extracts collected basic sentences based on functions of the speech recognition device with respect to the corpora in the domains, a database (DB) which stores therein the extracted basic sentences based on functions of the speech recognition device, a corpus receiver which receives a user'"'"'s corpora, and a controller which compares a received basic sentence extracted by the extractor with collected basic sentences stored in the DB and determines the function intended by the user'"'"'s corpora.

Claims

1. A speech recognition device comprising:

a corpus processor which comprises a refiner which is configured to classify collected corpora into domains corresponding to functions of the speech recognition device, and an extractor which is configured to extract collected basic sentences with respect to the corpora in the domains, and extract basic sentences from a user'"'"'s corpora;

a database (DB) which is configured to store therein the extracted basic sentences;

a corpus receiver which is configured to receive the user'"'"'s corpora; and

a controller which is configured to compare a received basic sentence with collected basic sentences stored in the DB and determine a function intended by the user'"'"'s corpora.

2. The speech recognition device according to claim 1, further comprising a function performer which is configured to perform the function determined by the controller.

3. The speech recognition device according to claim 1, wherein the corpus processor further comprises a paraphraser which paraphrases the extracted collected basic sentence and generates paraphrased collected corpora.

4. The speech recognition device according to claim 3, wherein the paraphraser paraphrases the extracted received basic sentences and generates paraphrased received corpora.

5. The speech recognition device according to claim 4, wherein the controller compares the paraphrased received corpora with the paraphrased collected corpora and determines the function intended by the user'"'"'s corpora.

6. The speech recognition device according to claim 1, wherein the refiner analyzes a main act and key object of the collected corpora or the received corpora and classifies the collected corpora and the received corpora into domains corresponding to the user'"'"'s intention.

7. The speech recognition device according to claim 1, wherein the extractor performs at least one of grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering, change of word order filtering, change of sentence pattern filtering, change of word order filtering, modifier filtering, and indirect expression filtering.

8. The speech recognition device according to claim 7, wherein the extractor sequentially performs the grammatical error filtering, the predicate filtering and the change of vocabulary filtering.

9. The speech recognition device according to claim 3, wherein the generation of the paraphrased collected corpora by the paraphraser is performed in a reverse order of the extraction of the collected basic sentences by the extractor.

10. The speech recognition device according to claim 4, wherein the generation of the paraphrased received corpora by the paraphraser is performed in a reverse order of the extracting of the received basic sentences by the extractor.

11. The speech recognition device according to claim 9, wherein the paraphraser comprises a paraphrasing template.

12. The speech recognition device according to claim 11, wherein a transverse axis of the paraphrasing template applies one of an indirect expression, a change of predicate, a change of vocabulary, a change of sentence pattern, a change of word order, and a change of modifier, and a vertical axis thereof applies another of the indirect expression, the change of predicate, the change of vocabulary, the change of sentence pattern, the change of word order, and the change of modifier.

13. A speech recognition method of a speech recognition device, the method comprising:

classifying collected corpora into domains consistent with functions of the speech recognition device;

extracting collected basic sentences based on functions of the speech recognition device from the corpora in the domains;

storing the extracted collected basic sentences based on the functions of the speech recognition device;

receiving a user'"'"'s corpus; and

comparing a received basic sentence extracted from the received user'"'"'s corpora with the stored collected basic sentences, and determining a function intended by the user'"'"'s corpus based on a result of the comparing.

14. The speech recognition method according to claim 13, further comprising performing the determined function.

15. The speech recognition method according to claim 13, further comprising generating paraphrased collected corpora by paraphrasing the extracted collected basic sentences.

16. The speech recognition method according to claim 13, further comprising generating paraphrased received corpora by paraphrasing the extracted received basic sentence.

17. The speech recognition method according to claim 16, wherein the paraphrased received corpora are compared with the paraphrased collected corpora to determine the function intended by the user'"'"'s corpus.

18. The speech recognition method according to claim 13, wherein the classifying into domains comprises analyzing a main act and key object of the collected corpora or the received corpora, and classifying the collected corpora and the received corpora into domains which correspond to the user'"'"'s intention.

19. The speech recognition method according to claim 13, wherein the extracting comprises performing at least one of grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering, change of vocabulary filtering, change of sentence pattern filtering, change of word order filtering, modifier filtering, and indirect expression filtering.

20. The speech recognition method according to claim 19, wherein the extracting comprises sequentially performing the grammatical error filtering, the predicate filtering and the change of vocabulary filtering.

21. The speech recognition method according to claim 15, wherein the generating the paraphrased collected corpora is performed in a reverse order of the extracting of the collected basic sentence.

22. The speech recognition method according to claim 16, wherein the generating the paraphrased received corpora is performed in a reverse order of the extracting of the received basic sentence.

23. The speech recognition method according to claim 21, wherein the generating the paraphrased collected corpora or paraphrased received corpora comprises a paraphrasing template.

24. The speech recognition method according to claim 23, wherein a transverse axis of the paraphrasing template applies one of an indirect expression, a change of predicate, a change of vocabulary, a change of sentence pattern, a change of word order, and a change of modifier, and a vertical axis thereof applies another of the indirect expression, the change of predicate, the change of vocabulary, the change of sentence pattern, the change of word order, and the change of modifier.

25. A database for a speech recognition device, the database comprising:

collected basic sentence data which are extracted by classifying collected corpora into domains corresponding to functions of the speech recognition device, and by performing at least one of grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering, change of vocabulary filtering, change of sentence pattern filtering, change of word order filtering, modifier filtering, and indirect expression filtering with respect to the corpora in the domains.

26. The database according to claim 25, further comprising paraphrased collected corpora data which are generated by paraphrasing the extracted collected basic sentence.

27. The database according to claim 25, further comprising received basic sentence data which are extracted from received corpora received by the speech recognition device.

28. The database according to claim 27, further comprising paraphrased corpora data which is paraphrased from the received basic sentence.

29. The database according to claim 25, wherein the classification into domains is determined by analyzing a main act and key object of the collected corpora or received corpora.

30. The database according to claim 25, wherein the extraction comprises performance of grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering and change of vocabulary filtering.

31. The database according to claim 26, wherein the paraphrased collected corpora data are obtained by performing in a reverse order of the collected basic sentence.

32. The database according to claim 27, wherein the paraphrased received corpora data are obtained by performing in a reverse order of extracting the received basic sentence.

33. The database according to claim 31, wherein the paraphrased collected corpora data are obtained based on a paraphrasing template.

34. The database according to claim 32, wherein the paraphrased received corpora data are obtained by using a paraphrasing template.

35. The database according to claim 33, wherein a transverse axis of the paraphrasing template applies one of an indirect expression, a change of predicate, a change of vocabulary, a change of sentence pattern, a change of word order, and a change of modifier, and a vertical axis thereof applies another one of the indirect expression, the change of predicate, the change of vocabulary, the change of sentence pattern, the change of word order, and the change of modifier.

36. A constructing method of a database for a speech recognition device, the constructing method comprising:

classifying collected corpora into domains corresponding to functions of the speech recognition device and refining the corpora;

performing at least one of grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering, change of vocabulary filtering, change of sentence pattern filtering, change of word order filtering, modifier filtering, and indirect expression filtering and extracting collected basic sentence; and

storing the collected basic sentence based on the functions of the speech recognition device.

37. The constructing method according to claim 36, further comprising generating paraphrased collected corpora data by paraphrasing the extracted collected basic sentence.

38. The constructing method according to claim 36, further comprising extracting received basic sentence data from received corpora received by the speech recognition device.

39. The constructing method according to claim 38, further comprising generating paraphrased corpora data from the received basic sentence.

40. The constructing method according to claim 36, wherein the refining is performed by analyzing a main act and key object of the collected corpora or received corpora.

41. The constructing method according to claim 36, wherein the extracting comprises sequentially performing grammatical error filtering, predicate filtering and change of vocabulary filtering.

42. The constructing method according to claim 37, wherein the generating the paraphrased collected corpora comprises performing in a reverse order of extracting the collected basic sentence.

43. The constructing method according to claim 39, wherein the generating the paraphrased received corpora comprises performing in a reverse order of extracting the received basic sentence.

44. The constructing method according to claim 42, wherein the generating the paraphrased collected corpora is based on a paraphrasing template.

45. The constructing method according to claim 43, wherein the generating the paraphrased received corpora is based on a paraphrasing template.

46. The constructing method according to claim 44, wherein a transverse axis of the paraphrasing template applies one of an indirect expression, a change of predicate, a change of vocabulary, a change of sentence pattern, a change of word order, and a change of modifier, and a vertical axis thereof applies another of the indirect expression, the change of predicate, the change of vocabulary, the change of sentence pattern, the change of word order, and the change of modifier.