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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7865364 | Avoiding repeated misunderstandings in spoken dialog system A method for improving speech recognition accuracy includes utilizing skiplists or lists of values that cannot occur because of improbability or impossibility. A table or list is stored in a dialog manager module. The table includes a plurality of information items ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853451 | System and method of exploiting human-human data for spoken language understanding systems A method is disclosed for generating labeled utterances from human-human utterances for use in training a semantic classification model for a spoken dialog system. The method comprises augmenting received human-human utterances with data that relates to call-type ga... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849089 | Method and system for adapting search results to personal information needs A method and system for adapting search results of a query to the information needs of the user submitting the query is provided. A search system analyzes click-through triplets indicating that a user submitted a query and that the user selected a document from the ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844460 | Automatic creation of an interactive log based on real-time content A system [100] includes an audio reception device [105] to receive audio from a person speaking and convert the audio to a text format. An intelligent agent [110] receives the text format and detects at least one key term in the text format base... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840407 | Business listing search A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes receiving category-business pairs, each category-business pair including a business category and a specific business, and establishing a data structure having nodes based on the category... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835911 | Method and system for automatically building natural language understanding models The invention disclosed herein concerns a system (100) and method (600) for building a language model representation of an NLU application. The method 500 can include categorizing an NLU application domain (602), classifying a corpus in v... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818173 | Information retrieval system, method, and program An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogativ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818174 | Speech-recognition grammar analysis An apparatus for determining at least one recognition parameter, associated with a grammar, for use in attempting to recognize utterances using the grammar includes an input configured to receive indicia of the grammar, an output configured to provide the at least o... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813929 | Automatic editing using probabilistic word substitution models An input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is transformed into output structured document text. A probabilistic word substitution model is provided which establishes association probabilities indicative of target structured document text correlating w... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809569 | Turn-taking confidence A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809567 | Speech recognition application or server using iterative recognition constraints A speech recognition application including a recognition module configured to receive input utterances and an application module configured to select a recognition from the speech recognition module using output from a first iteration to select a recognition result ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809570 | Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based i... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809568 | Indexing and searching speech with text meta-data An index for searching spoken documents having speech data and text meta-data is created by obtaining probabilities of occurrence of words and positional information of the words of the speech data and combining it with at least positional information of the words i... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805304 | Speech recognition apparatus for determining final word from recognition candidate word sequence corresponding to voice data A speech recognition apparatus and a method are provided in which even when a speech recognition grammar is employed independently or alternatively, speech recognition response is improved. Voice data is received. Then, an output suspended state for a speech recogni... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805303 | Question answering system, data search method, and computer program A question answering system includes a question input unit, a search unit, an answer candidate extraction unit, an answer candidate inspection unit and an answer output unit. The search unit executes search processing based on an input question. The answer candidate... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805302 | Applying a structured language model to information extraction One feature of the present invention uses the parsing capabilities of a structured language model in the information extraction process. During training, the structured language model is first initialized with syntactically annotated training data. The model is then... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805305 | Enhancement to Viterbi speech processing algorithm for hybrid speech models that conserves memory The present invention discloses a method for semantically processing speech for speech recognition purposes. The method can reduce an amount of memory required for a Viterbi search of an N-gram language model having a value of N greater than two and also having at l... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7765102 | Generic spelling mnemonics A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model in... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761298 | Document expansion in speech retrieval Methods of document expansion for a speech retrieval document by a recognizer. A database of vectors of automatic transcriptions of documents is accessed and the vectors are truncated by removing all terms that are not recognizable by the recognizer to create trunca... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747437 | N-best list rescoring in speech recognition A method of speech recognition processing is described based on an N-best list of recognition hypotheses corresponding to a spoken input. Each hypothesis on the N-best list is rescored based on its rank in the rescored N-best list. The rescoring may be based on a St... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747438 | Multi-slot dialog systems and methods Systems and methods for constructing a series of interactions with a user to collect multiple pieces of related information for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal or topic (a multi-slot dialog) using a component-based approach are disclosed. The method gen... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7725321 | Speech based query system using semantic decoding An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identif... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720684 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for one-step correction of voice interaction A one-step correction mechanism for voice interaction is provided. Correction of a previous state is enabled simultaneously with recognition in a current or subsequent state. An application is decomposed into a set of tasks. Each task is associated with the collecti... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702508 | System and method for natural language processing of query answers Candidate answers responsive to a user query are analyzed using a natural language engine to determine appropriate answers from an electronic database. The system and methods are useful for Internet based search engines, as well as distributed speech recognition sys... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698138 | Broadcast receiving method, broadcast receiving system, recording medium, and program A broadcast receiving system includes a broadcast receiving part for receiving a broadcast in which additional information that corresponds to an object appearing in broadcast contents and that contains keyword information for specifying the object is broadcasted si... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689420 | Personalizing a context-free grammar using a dictation language model Architecture for integrating and generating back-off grammars (BOG) in a speech recognition application for recognizing out-of-grammar (OOG) utterances and updating the context-free grammars (CFG) with the results. A parsing component identifies keywords and/or slot... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7664644 | Multitask learning for spoken language understanding A system, method and computer-readable medium provide a multitask learning method for intent or call-type classification in a spoken language understanding system. Multitask learning aims at training tasks in parallel while using a shared representation. A computing... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7650283 | Dialogue supporting apparatus A dialogue supporting apparatus that easily selects a desired sample sentence from among candidate-sample sentences corresponding to inputted speech. The dialogue supporting apparatus includes a speech recognition unit performing continuous speech recognition of the... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7640160 | Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention a... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634409 | Dynamic speech sharpening An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7620549 | System and method of supporting adaptive misrecognition in conversational speech A system and method are provided for receiving speech and/or non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention provides a conversational human-machine interface that includes a conversa... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620550 | Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each call-type defined in a labeling guide. A first NLU model is generated an... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606708 | Apparatus, method, and medium for generating grammar network for use in speech recognition and dialogue speech recognition A method, apparatus, and medium for generating a grammar network for speech recognition and a dialogue speech recognition are provided. A method, apparatus, and medium for employing the same are provided. The apparatus for generating a grammar network for speech rec... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603277 | Speech recognition device using statistical language model The present invention includes specific sentence generator 14 for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in grammar storing unit 12 and correction information stored in correction information storing unit | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599837 | Creating a speech recognition grammar for alphanumeric concepts A method and system to generate a grammar adapted for use by a speech recognizer includes receiving a representation of an alphanumeric expression. For instance, the representation can take the form of a regular expression or a mask. The grammar is generated based o... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7587322 | Robust speech recognition with data bank accession organized by semantic attribute A method for controlling an information system during the output of stored information segments via a signaling device (50a). Useful information is stored in a database (32) for being requested, from which information at least one information se... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584103 | Automated extraction of semantic content and generation of a structured document from speech Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating structured documents based on speech, including identification of relevant concepts and their interpretation. In one embodiment, a structured document generator uses an integrated process to generate a structured... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580838 | Automatic insertion of non-verbalized punctuation Recognizing punctuation in computer-implemented speech recognition includes performing speech recognition on an utterance to produce a recognition result for the utterance. A non-verbalized punctuation mark is identified in a recognition result and the recognition r... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571098 | System and method of spoken language understanding using word confusion networks Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7562017 | Active labeling for spoken language understanding An active labeling process is provided that aims to minimize the number of utterances to be checked again by automatically selecting the ones that are likely to be erroneous or inconsistent with the previously labeled examples. In one embodiment, the errors and inco... | 07/14/2009 |
