Sri International

Andreas Kathol

Girish Acharya

Gokhan Tur

William Scott Mark

Horacio E Franco

Necip Fazil Ayan

Michael John Wolverton

Bart Peintner

Regis Vincent

Neil Yorke-Smith

Wen Wang

Osher Yadgar

Venkatarama Satyanarayana Parimi

Dimitra Vergyri

Elizabeth E Shriberg

Martin Graciarena

Edgar Kalns

Min Yin

Colleen Richey

Michael Wessel

Vikramjit Mitra

Bruce H Knoth

Mitchell McLaren

Aaron Spaulding

Hyong-Gyun Kim

James F Carpenter

Leonor Almada

Roland Heusser

Nikoletta Basiou

Bruce Knoth

Mitchell Mclaren

A conversational assistant for conversational engagement platform can contain various modules including a user-model augmentation module, a dialogue management module, and a user-state analysis input/output module. The dialogue management module receives metrics tied to a user from the other modules to understand a current topic and a user's emotions regarding the current topic from the user-state analysis input/output module and then adapts dialogue from the dialogue management module to the user based on dialogue rules factoring in these different metrics. The dialogue rules also factors in both i) a duration of a conversational engagement with the user and ii) an attempt to maintain a positive experience for the user with the conversational engagement. A flexible ontology relationship representation about the user is built and stores learned metrics about the user over time with each conversational engagement, and then in combination with the dialogue rules, drives the conversations with the user.

Conversational assistant for conversational engagement

A method for assisting a user with one or more desired tasks is disclosed. For example, an executable, generic language understanding module and an executable, generic task reasoning module are provided for execution in the computer processing system. A set of run-time specifications is provided to the generic language understanding module and the generic task reasoning module, comprising one or more models specific to a domain. A language input is then received from a user, an intention of the user is determined with respect to one or more desired tasks, and the user is assisted with the one or more desired tasks, in accordance with the intention of the user.

Generic virtual personal assistant platform

A computer-implemented method can include a speech collection module collecting a speech pattern from a patient, a speech feature computation module computing at least one speech feature from the collected speech pattern, a mental health determination module determining a state-of-mind of the patient based at least in part on the at least one computed speech feature, and an output module providing an indication of a diagnosis with regard to a possibility that the patient is suffering from a certain condition such as depression or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Systems for speech-based assessment of a patient's state-of-mind

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Andreas Kathol