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Natural language task-oriented dialog manager and method

  • US 6,246,981 B1
  • Filed: 11/25/1998
  • Issued: 06/12/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for conversant interaction comprising:

  • a recognizer which receives and processes input information and outputs a recognized representation of the input information;

    a dialog manager coupled to the recognizer, the dialog manager receives the recognized representation of the input information, the dialog manager having task-oriented forms for associating user input information therewith, the dialog manager being capable of selecting an applicable form from the task-oriented forms responsive to the input information by scoring the forms relative to each other; and

    a synthesizer converts a response generated by the dialog manager to output the response.

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