Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mouni Reddy

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Kristina Nikolova Toutanova

Pallavi Choudhury

Susan Michele Hendrich

Margaret Ann Mitchell

Xuetao Yin

Bill Dolan

Jay Banerjee

Rebecca Mason

Ron Owens

Yaxiao Song

Liang Xu

Joseph Spencer King

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Aleksandar Uzelac

Shane Jeremy Landry

Vishwac Sena Kannan

Sogol Malekzadeh

Daniel J Hwang

Emily Grace Sappington

Molly Rose Suver

Deborah Harrison

Jeffrey Spencer Davison

Robert J Howard, Iii

Annie Lenore Smith

Sara Nopwan Siritaratiwat

Deborah B Harrison

Robert J Iii Howard

Iii Howard Robert J

A 'Facet Recommender' creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks. Further, responses or suggestions provided as utterances may be personalized to individual users.

Sentiment-based recommendations as a function of grounding factors associated with a user

Facet recommendations from sentiment-bearing content

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

A method for providing digital personal assistant responses may include receiving, by a digital personal assistant associated with a plurality of reactive agents, a user input initiating a dialog with the digital personal assistant within the computing device. In response to receiving the input, an operation mode of the computing device may be detected from a plurality of available operation modes. One of the plurality of reactive agents can be selected based on the received input. A plurality of response strings associated with the selected reactive agent can be accessed. At least one of the plurality of response strings is selected based at least on the operation mode and at least one hardware characteristic of the computing device. The selected at least one of the plurality of response strings is providing during the dialog, as a response to the user input.

Scaling digital personal assistant agents across devices

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.

Digital personal assistant interaction with impersonations and rich multimedia in responses

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