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Natural language generation in a spoken dialogue system

US10242667B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 2, 2017
Grant dateMar 26, 2019
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Expiry dateJun 2, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2015/223
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Described herein are systems and methods for providing a natural language generator in a spoken dialog system that considers both lexicalized and delexicalized dialog act slot-value pairs when translating one or more dialog act slot-value pairs into a natural language output. Each slot and value associated with the slot in a dialog act are represented as (dialog act+slot, value), where the first term (dialog act+slot) is delexicalized and the second term (value) is lexicalized. Each dialog act slot-value representation is processed to produce at least one delexicalized sentence as an output. A lexicalized sentence is produced by replacing each delexicalized slot with the value associated with the delexicalized slot.

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