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Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jiayin Ge, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zicheng Huang, Bothell, WA (US);

Guihong Cao, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of disambiguating user queries in a multi-turn dialogue include a set of user utterances includes using a predefined language model to recognize an ambiguous entity in an unresolved user utterance from the multi-turn dialogue. The method further includes outputting a clarifying question about the ambiguous entity, and receiving a clarifying user utterance. The method further includes identifying a disambiguating entity in the clarifying user utterance. The method further includes rewriting the unresolved user utterance as a rewritten utterance that replaces the ambiguous entity with the disambiguating entity, and outputting the rewritten utterance to one or more query answering machines.


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