Abstract:
The invention concerns a method and system for detecting and extracting named entities from spontaneous communications (Fig.1). The method may recognizing input communications from a user (150), detecting contextual named entities (160) from the recognized input communications (150) and outputting the contextual named entities to a language understanding unit (170).
Abstract:
The automated call routing system and method which operates on a call routing objective of a calling expressed in natural speech of the calling party. The system incorporates a speech recognition function, as to which a calling party's natural-speech call routing objective provides an input (15), and which is trained to recognize a plurality of meaningful phrases (10), each such phrase being related to a specific call routing objective. Upon recognition of one or more of such meaningful phrases in a calling party's input speech, an interpretation function (20) then acts on such calling party's routing objective, request to either implement the calling party's requested routing objective, or to enter into a dialog (25), with the calling party to obtain additional information from which a sufficient confidence level can be attained to implement that routing objective.