Abstract:
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for user machine dialogue. Historic dialogue data related to past dialogues are accessed and used to learn, via machine learning, expected utilities. During a dialogue involving a user and a machine agent, a representation of a shared mindset between the user and the agent is obtained to characterize the current state of the dialogue, which is then used to update the expected utilities. Continuous expected utility functions are then generated based on the updated expected utilities, wherein the continuous expected utility functions are to be used in determining how to conduct a dialogue with a user.
Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements in digital assistants incorporating personalization based on social network data. Various aspects of the agent, such as the agent's voice, language style, and avatar may be personalized. Personalization may be applied to components of an agent's architecture (e.g., the virtual agent's language model, natural language generator, voice generation component, etc.). Moreover, by interfacing with the social network's social graph, the agent may be provided with information useful to performing certain tasks (e.g., a calendar for scheduling, food preferences for ordering tasks, etc.). An agent may be provided (and personalized) for a single user, or a group of users (e.g., a family). The agent can be personalized to anyone, which may allow (e.g.) for the agent to represent a celebrity or a person who is not currently available in interactions with others. Different agents can talk to each other, e.g. for purposes of scheduling meetings.
Abstract:
Method and system for facilitating collaboration among enterprise agents are disclosed. A response provided by a first agent to a first customer is tagged by the first agent. The response is tagged during an interaction between the first agent and the first customer with an intent relevant to the interaction. The tagged response is used as an agent response of a second agent during an ongoing interaction between a second agent and a second customer. The use of the response as an agent response of the second agent is facilitated if at least one intent relevant to the ongoing interaction matches the intent tagged to the response by the first agent.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods can be implemented to determine correctness and/or consistency of communications in a variety of applications. In various embodiments, a communication in a communication channel can be monitored, a feature from the monitored communication can be extracted for comparison with one or more sample features to determine correctness and/or an identification of a contradiction of the extracted feature from which remedial action can be taken. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Abstract:
Sistema y un método para comunicación entre dispositivos a través de lenguaje natural usando aplicaciones de mensajería instantánea e identificadores públicos interoperables donde el método comprende las etapas de recibir, un módulo de mensajería instantánea, desde un cliente de mensajería instantánea, un mensaje instantáneo en lenguaje natural, con un identificador público interoperable, identificar dicho mensaje corno un mensaje a procesar porque dicho identificador público interoperable se corresponde con el idenfificador público que identifica a dicho módulo de mensajería instantánea de forma única, procesar dicho mensaje instantáneo y reenviar dicho mensaje a un módulo de procesamiento de lenguaje natural, procesar el contenido de dicho mensaje en dicho módulo de procesamiento de lenguaje natural para traducir dicho contenido en al menos un comando específico para un dispositivo de destino y lanzar la ejecución del ai menos dicho comando en dicho dispositivo de destino.
Abstract:
There is provided a method for automatically determining an output utterance for a virtual agent based on output of two or more conversational interfaces. A candidate output utterance from each of the two or more conversational interfaces can be received, and one candidate output utterance from all received candidate outputs can be selected based on a predetermined priority factor. The selected utterance can be output by the virtual agent.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for building a dialog-state specific multi-turn contextual language understanding system are provided. More specifically, the systems and methods infer or are configured to infer a state-specific schema and/or state-specific rules from a formed single-shot language understanding model and/or a single-shot rule set. As such, the systems and methods only require the information necessary to form a single-shot language understanding model and/or a single-shot rule set from a builder to form or build the dialog-state specific multi-turn contextual language understanding system. Accordingly, the systems and methods for building a dialog-state specific multi-turn contextual language understanding system reduce the expertise, time, and resources necessary to build a dialog-state specific multi-turn contextual language understanding system for an application when compared to systems and methods that require further input from the builder than necessary to build a single-shot language understanding system.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for appending one or more graphics to a digital message are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for appending one or more graphic to a digital message may include (1) receiving a digital message; (2) applying natural language processing to the digital image by at least one computer processor; (3) appending one or more graphic to the digital message based at least in part on the natural language processing; and (4) outputting the digital message with one or more appended graphic.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method and an apparatus facilitate customer intent prediction. The method includes receiving natural language communication provided by a customer on at least one enterprise related interaction channel. Textual data corresponding to the natural language communication is generated by converting one or more non-textual portions in the natural language communication to a text form. One or more processing operations are performed on the textual data to generate normalized text. The normalized text is configured to facilitate interpretation of the natural language communication. At least one intention of the customer is predicted, at least in part, based on the normalized text and a reply is provisioned to the customer based on the predicted intention. The reply is provisioned to the customer on the at least one enterprise related interaction channel in response to the natural language communication.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for detecting actionable items in speech. In one manner of operation, the technique entails: receiving utterance information that expresses at least one utterance made by one participant of a conversation to at least one other participant of the conversation; converting the utterance information into recognized speech information; using a machine-trained model to recognize at least one actionable item associated with the recognized speech information; and performing at least one computer-implemented action associated the actionable item(s).The machine-trained model may correspond to a deep-structured convolutional neural network. In some implementations, the technique produces the machine-trained model using a source environment corpus that is not optimally suited for a target environment in which the model is intended to be applied. The technique further provides various adaptation techniques for adapting a source-environment model so that it better suits the target environment.