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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2014
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Matthieu Hebert, Melocheville, CA;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests. Information specifying a weight for each of a plurality of domains is received via a user interface. The plurality of domains each relates to a potential area of interest for the user, and the weight for a domain from among the plurality of domains indicates a level of interest for the user in the domain. A ranking classifier used to rank NLU hypotheses generated by an NLU engine is trained using training data from which features are, at least in part, based on the information specifying a weight for each of the plurality of domains.