System and method of providing an automated data-collection in spoken dialog systems

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8185399
APP PUB NO 20060149555A1
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11029798

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The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises presenting an initial prompt to a user, recognizing a received user utterance using an automatic speech recognition engine and classifying the recognized user utterance using a spoken language understanding module. If the recognized user utterance is not understood or classifiable to a predetermined acceptance threshold, then the method re-prompts the user. If the recognized user utterance is not classifiable to a predetermined rejection threshold, then the method transfers the user to a human as this may imply a task-specific utterance. The received and classified user utterance is then used for training the spoken dialog system.

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NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC1 WAYSIDE ROAD BURLINGTON MA 01803

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Di, Fabbrizio Giuseppe Florham Park, US 55 2240
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek Z Denville, US 57 2969
Rahim, Mazin G Warren, US 82 2512
Renger, Bernard S New Providence, US 274 6702
Tur, Gokhan Denville, US 102 4560

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