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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Hannes Schulz, Karlsruhe, DE;
Jing He, Mississauga, CA;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods for providing hierarchical state tracking in a spoken dialogue system. A sequence of turns is received by a spoken dialogue system. Each turn includes a user utterance and a machine act. At each turn, a value pointer and a turn pointer are provided for that turn. The value pointer represents a probability distribution over the one or more words in the user utterance that indicates whether each word in the user utterance is a slot value for a slot. The turn pointer identifies which turn in a set of turns includes a currently-relevant slot value for the slot, where the set of turns includes a current turn for which the turn point is being provided, and all turns that precede the current turn.