DIALOG MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD
First Claim
1. An intelligent dialog processing apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- a speech understanding processor, of one or more processors, configured to perform an understanding of an uttered primary speech of a user using an idiolect of the user based on a personalized database (DB) for the user; and
an additional-query processor, of the one or more processors, configured to extract, from the primary speech, a select unit of expression that is not understood by the speech understanding processor, and to provide a clarifying query for the user that is associated with the extracted unit of expression to clarify the extracted unit of expression.
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Abstract
An intelligent dialog processing apparatus and method. The intelligent dialog processing apparatus includes a speech understanding processor, of one or more processors, configured to perform an understanding of an uttered primary speech of a user using an idiolect of the user based on a personalized database (DB) for the user, and an additional-query processor, of the one or more processors, configured to extract, from the primary speech, a select unit of expression that is not understood by the speech understanding processor, and to provide a clarifying query for the user that is associated with the extracted unit of expression to clarify the extracted unit of expression.
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1. An intelligent dialog processing apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
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a speech understanding processor, of one or more processors, configured to perform an understanding of an uttered primary speech of a user using an idiolect of the user based on a personalized database (DB) for the user; and an additional-query processor, of the one or more processors, configured to extract, from the primary speech, a select unit of expression that is not understood by the speech understanding processor, and to provide a clarifying query for the user that is associated with the extracted unit of expression to clarify the extracted unit of expression. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An intelligent dialog processing method, the method comprising:
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performing an automated understanding of an uttered primary speech of a user using an idiolect of the user based on a personalized DB for the user; extracting, from the primary speech, a select unit of expression that is not understood based on the understanding; and providing a clarifying query associated, through an automated process, with the extracted unit of expression to clarify the extracted unit of expression. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An intelligent dialog processing system comprising:
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a speech recognizer processor, of one or more processors, configured to receive an initial utterance of a statement by the user, and to perform a recognition of the received initial utterance; an utterance processor, of the one or more processors, configured to perform an understanding of the recognized initial utterance using an idiolect of the user based on results of the recognition and a personalized DB of the user, process a clarifying query associated with a unit of expression that is not understood in the understanding of the recognized initial utterance, and to output the clarifying query; and a reply processor, of the one or more processors, configured to generate a natural language reply to the received initial utterance of the user using the clarifying query for clarify a portion of the initial utterance to the utterance processor. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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