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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2022
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Jean-Michel Attendu, Montréal, CA;
Alexandre Jules Dos Santos, Montréal, CA;
François Duplessis Beaulieu, Montréal, CA;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method that includes obtaining (a) a dense representation of external features, (b) a dense representation of text, and (c) a mask that associates the external features to tokens of the text, and employing a cross-attention process that utilizes the mask to perform an information fusion of the dense representation of the external features and the tokens of the text, thus yielding a joint representation of the external features and the tokens of the text. There is also provided a system that executes the method, and a storage device that includes instructions for controlling a processor to perform the method.