System and method for building emotional machines

Details System and method for building emotional machines System and method for building emotional machines

2011-03-22

2011-03-22

Yen, Eric (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Application

C704S001000, C704S009000, C704S238000, C704S239000, C704S240000, C704S257000, C704S270100, C704S275000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07912720

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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