Noise data augmentation for natural language processing

    公开(公告)号:US11538457B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US17016117

    申请日:2020-09-09

    Abstract: Techniques for noise data augmentation for training chatbot systems in natural language processing. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a training set of utterances for training an intent classifier to identify one or more intents for one or more utterances; augmenting the training set of utterances with noise text to generate an augmented training set of utterances; and training the intent classifier using the augmented training set of utterances. The augmenting includes: obtaining the noise text from a list of words, a text corpus, a publication, a dictionary, or any combination thereof irrelevant of original text within the utterances of the training set of utterances, and incorporating the noise text within the utterances relative to the original text in the utterances of the training set of utterances at a predefined augmentation ratio to generate augmented utterances.

    Using backpropagation to train a dialog system

    公开(公告)号:US11508359B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US17002229

    申请日:2020-08-25

    Abstract: Techniques described herein use backpropagation to train one or more machine learning (ML) models of a dialog system. For instance, a method includes accessing seed data that includes training tuples, where each training tuple comprising a respective logical form. The method includes converting the logical form of a training tuple to a converted logical form, by applying to the logical form a text-to-speech (TTS) subsystem, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) subsystem, and a semantic parser of a dialog system. The method includes determining a training signal by using an objective function to compare the converted logical form to the logical form. The method further includes training the TTS subsystem, the ASR subsystem, and the semantic parser via backpropagation based on the training signal. As a result of the training by backpropagation, the machine learning models are tuned work effectively together within a pipeline of the dialog system.

    Implementing a correction model to reduce propagation of automatic speech recognition errors

    公开(公告)号:US11462208B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US16992291

    申请日:2020-08-13

    Abstract: Some techniques described herein determine a correction model for a dialog system, such that the correction model corrects output from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) subsystem in the dialog system. A method described herein includes accessing training data. A first tuple of the training data includes an utterance, where the utterance is a textual representation of speech. The method further includes using an ASR subsystem of a dialog system to convert the utterance to an output utterance. The method further includes storing the output utterance in corrective training data that is based on the training data. The method further includes training a correction model based on the corrective training data, such that the correction model is configured to correct output from the ASR subsystem during operation of the dialog system.

    TECHNIQUES FOR OUT-OF-DOMAIN (OOD) DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210303798A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17217909

    申请日:2021-03-30

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for identifying out-of-domain utterances. One particular technique includes receiving an utterance and a target domain of a chatbot, generating a sentence embedding for the utterance, obtaining an embedding representation for each cluster of in-domain utterances associated with the target domain, predicting, using a metric learning model, a first probability that the utterance belongs to the target domain based on a similarity or difference between the sentence embedding and each embedding representation for each cluster, predicting, using an outlier detection model, a second probability that the utterance belongs to the target domain based on a determined distance or density deviation between the sentence embedding and embedding representations for neighboring clusters, evaluating the first probability and the second probability to determine a final probability, and classifying the utterance as in-domain or out-of-domain for the chatbot based on the final probability.

    TASK-ORIENTED DIALOG SUITABLE FOR A STANDALONE DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20210065709A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US17005847

    申请日:2020-08-28

    Abstract: Described herein are dialog systems, and techniques for providing such dialog systems, that are suitable for use on standalone computing devices. In some embodiments, a dialog system includes a dialog manager, which takes as input an input logical form, which may be a representation of user input. The dialog, manager may include a dialog state tracker, an execution subsystem, a dialog policy subsystem, and a context stack. The dialog state tracker may generate an intermediate logical form from the input logical form combined with a context from the context stack. The context stack may maintain a history of a current dialog, and thus, the intermediate logical form may include contextual information potentially missing from the input logical form. The execution subsystem may execute the intermediate logical form to produce an execution result, and the dialog policy subsystem may generate an output logical form based on the execution result.

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