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Dialogue management using scripts

US8041570B2 · kind B2 · utility

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28Claims

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Danilo Mirkovic · Stanford, US
Lawrence Cavedon · San Francisco, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 2005
Grant date	Oct 18, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 5, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10L2015/228
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Representation-neutral dialogue systems and methods (“RNDS”) are described that include multi-application, multi-device spoken-language dialogue systems based on the information-state update approach. The RNDS includes representation-neutral core components of a dialogue system that provide scripted domain-specific extensions to routines such as dialogue move modeling and reference resolution, easy substitution of specific semantic representations and associated routines, and clean interfaces to external components for language-understanding (i.e., speech-recognition and parsing) and language-generation, and to domain-specific knowledge sources. The RNDS also allows seamless interaction with a community of devices.

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