AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

At+t Corp.

Ilana Bromberg

Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tur

Gokhan Tur

Mazin G Rahim

Giuseppe Riccardi

Barbara B Hollister

Daniel Leon Stern

James M Wilson

Tirso M Alonso

Lawrence Lyon Rose

Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition models and spoken language understanding models, to identify utterances that should be annotated based on criteria such as confidence scores generated by the models. These utterances are placed in an annotation list along with a type of annotation to be performed for the utterances and an order in which the annotation should proceed. The utterances in the annotation list can be annotated for speech recognition purposes, spoken language understanding purposes, labeling purposes, etc. The selection module can also select utterances for annotation based on previously annotated speech data and deficiencies in the various models.

Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application

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Murray Hill, NJ, United States of America

Ilana Bromberg