Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Sang-Keun Jung

Ki-Young Lee

Yun Su Jin

Jinxia Huang

Young-Ae Seo

Yoon-Hyung Roh

Sung-Kwon Choi

Young-Kil Kim

Oh-Woog Kwon

Eun-Jin Park

Chang-Hyun Kim

Jong-Hun Shin

Seung-Hoon Na

An apparatus and method for controlling a navigator are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a natural voice command acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a speech language understanding unit, a related information extraction unit, and a dialog management control unit. The natural voice command acquisition unit obtains a natural voice command from a user. The information acquisition unit obtains vehicle data including information about the operation of the navigator and information about the state of the vehicle. The speech language understanding unit converts the natural voice command into a user intention that can be understood by a computer. The related information extraction unit extracts related information that corresponds to the user intention. The dialog management control unit generates a response to the natural voice command based on the related information, the user intention and a dialog history, and controls the navigator in accordance with the conversation response.

Apparatus and method for controlling navigator via speech dialogue

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Daejeon, South Korea

Sang-Keun Jung