SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING UTILITY-BASED DECISION MAKING ABOUT CLARIFICATION DIALOG GIVEN COMMUNICATIVE UNCERTAINTY

Patent №

US 7,580,908

Granted

2009-08-25

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11100699

An interactive communications system is provided in accordance with the present invention. The system includes a component for analyzing sequential communications including speech, gestures and other modalities related to an underlying communicative intention. The component concurrently employs at least two of the communications in determining an action to facilitate achieving the intention.

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.93
Knowledge representation0.78
Machine learning0.39
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 159170301

Assignors

HORVITZ, ERIC J., PAEK, TIMOTHY S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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