System and method for referring to entities in a discourse domain
US8566090B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 2012 |
| Grant date | Oct 22, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L13/027
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for referring to entities. The method includes receiving domain-specific training data of sentences describing a target entity in a context, extracting a speaker history and a visual context from the training data, selecting attributes of the target entity based on at least one of the speaker history, the visual context, and speaker preferences, generating a text expression referring to the target entity based on at least one of the selected attributes, the speaker history, and the context, and outputting the generated text expression. The weighted finite-state automaton can represent partial orderings of word pairs in the domain-specific training data. The weighted finite-state automaton can be speaker specific or speaker independent. The weighted finite-state automaton can include a set of weighted partial orderings of the training data for each possible realization.
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