Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Recognition
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-24
2009-06-02
Lerner, Martin (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Recognition
C704S245000, C704S256300, C704S257000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07542901
ABSTRACT:
Techniques are provided for generating improved language modeling. Such improved modeling is achieved by conditioning a language model on a state of a dialog for which the language model is employed. For example, the techniques of the invention may improve modeling of language for use in a speech recognizer of an automatic natural language based dialog system. Improved usability of the dialog system arises from better recognition of a user's utterances by a speech recognizer, associated with the dialog system, using the dialog state-conditioned language models. By way of example, the state of the dialog may be quantified as: (i) the internal state of the natural language understanding part of the dialog system; or (ii) words in the prompt that the dialog system played to the user.
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Dharanipragada Satyanarayana
Monkowski Michael Daniel
Printz Harry W.
Visweswariah Karthik
Lerner Martin
Nuance Communications Inc.
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks P.C.
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