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System and method for building emotional machines

US7912720B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJul 20, 2005
Grant dateMar 22, 2011
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Expiry dateApr 19, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L17/26
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device, receiving contextual information regarding the natural language dialog which is related to changes of emotion over time in the dialog, and detecting an emotion of the user based on the received contextual information. Examples of contextual information include, for example, differential statistics, joint statistics and distance statistics.

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