SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING USING WORD CONFUSION NETWORKS

Patent №

US 7,957,971

Granted

2011-06-07

Filed 2009

Owner

AT&T CORP.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12483853

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 phrases by calculating an intersection of the modified word lattice, which is optionally preprocessed, and a finite state machine that includes a plurality of salient grammar fragments.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.05
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 337070319

AT&T PROPERTIES, LLC

assignment · 337980519

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.

assignment · 337980677

Assignors

GORIN, ALLEN LOUIS, HAKKANI-TUR, DILEK Z., RICCARDI, GIUSEPPE, TUR, GOKHAN, WRIGHT, JEREMY HUNTLEY

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

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