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System and method of automatically generating building dialog services by exploiting the content and structure of websites

  • US 8,090,583 B1
  • Filed: 10/30/2007
  • Issued: 01/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for providing a spoken dialog interface to a website in at least one of an HTML markup language and an XML markup language, the system comprising:

  • a first module controlling a processor to compute a summary for each respective node in the website based on a list of anchor texts, each anchor text in the list of anchor texts being in a hyperlink of another webpage that points to each respective node, each anchor text selected according to a term density associated with a percentage of salient words within a phrase relative to a total number of words in the phrase;

    a second module controlling the processor to identify hyperlinks associated with each respective node and a weight associated with each respective hyperlink, wherein the weight relates to a percent of salient words in the anchor text of the respective hyperlink relative to total words in anchor texts of the hyperlinks associated with each respective node; and

    a third module controlling the processor to use the hyperlinks, weights, and the summary for each respective node to enable the spoken dialog interface to interact with a user in a live spoken dialog, wherein nodes in the website are matched with open-ended user spoken input and prompts from the spoken dialog interface seeking the open-ended user spoken input are independent of the nodes in the website.

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