Semantic Machines, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Steven Andrew Wegmann

Laurence Steven Gillick

David Leo Wright Hall

Michael Jack Newman

Daniel Lawrence Roth

Daniel Louis Klein

Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak

Jordan Rian Cohen

Adam David Pauls

Andrew Volpe

Jacob Daniel Andreas

Pengyu Chen

Taylor Darwin Berg-Kirkpatrick

Charles Clayton Wooters

Jean Crawford

A method of automatically delineating turns in a multi-turn dialogue between a user and a conversational computing interface. Audio data encoding speech of the user in the multi-turn dialogue is received. The audio data is analyzed to recognize, in the speech of the user, an utterance followed by a silence. The utterance is recognized as a last utterance in a turn of the multi-turn dialogue responsive to the silence exceeding a context-dependent duration dynamically updated based on a conversation history of the multi-turn dialogue and features of the received audio, wherein the conversation history includes one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the user and one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the conversational computing interface.

Automatic turn delineation in multi-turn dialogue

An interaction assistant conducts multiple turn interaction dialogs with a user in which context is maintained between turns, and the system manages the dialog to achieve an inferred goal for the user. The system includes a linguistic interface to a user and a parser for processing linguistic events from the user. A dialog manager of the system is configured to receive alternative outputs from the parser, and selecting an action and causing the action to be performed based on the received alternative outputs. The system further includes a dialog state for an interaction with the user, and the alternative outputs represent alternative transitions from a current dialog state to a next dialog state. The system further includes a storage for a plurality of templates, and wherein each dialog state is defined in terms of an interrelationship of one or more instances of the templates.

Iteratively updating parameters for dialog states

Automated assistant for user interaction via speech

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Steven Andrew Wegmann