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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2021
Interactions Llc, Franklin, MA (US);
Brian David Lester, Livonia, MI (US);
Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, NJ (US);
Interactions LLC, Franklin, MA (US);
Abstract
A natural language understanding (NLU) system generates in-place annotations for natural language utterances or other types of time-based media based on stand-off annotations. The in-place annotations are associated with particular sub-sequences of an annotation, which provides richer information than stand-off annotations, which are associated only with an utterance as a whole. To generate the in-place annotations for an utterance, the NLU system applies an encoder network and a decoder network to obtain attention weights for the various tokens within the utterance. The NLU system disqualifies tokens of the utterance based on their corresponding attention weights, and selects highest-scoring contiguous sequences of tokens between the disqualified tokens. In-place annotations are associated with the selected sequences.