Crowdsourced, Grounded Language for Intent Modeling in Conversational Interfaces

Patent №

US 9,754,585

Granted

2017-09-05

Filed 2012

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13438751

Different advantageous embodiments provide a crowdsourcing method for modeling user intent in conversational interfaces. One or more stimuli are presented to a plurality of describers. One or more sets of describer data are captured from the plurality of describers using a data collection mechanism. The one or more sets of describer data are processed to generate one or more models. Each of the one or more models is associated with a specific stimulus from the one or more stimuli.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning1.00
Speech0.99
AI hardware0.85
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 279820986

Assignors

BROCKETT, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, CHOUDHURY, PIALI, DOLAN, WILLIAM BRENNAN, JU, YUN-CHENG, PANTEL, PATRICK, SOPHY, NOELLE MALLORY, VOLKOVA, SVITLANA

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