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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2004
Misty Azara, Seattle, WA (US);
Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giovanni L. Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin H Van Den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Misty Azara, Seattle, WA (US);
Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giovanni L. Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin H Van Den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Techniques are provided for determining and using interaction models. Discourse functions, prosodic features and turn information are determined from the speech information in a training corpus. Statistics, decision trees, rules and/or various other methods are used to determine a predictive interaction model based on the discourse functions, the prosodic features and the turn information. Predictive interaction models are optionally determined for individual users, genres, languages and/or other characteristics of the speech information. The predictive interaction model is useable to predict turns in a dialogue based on the discourse functions and prosodic features identified in the speech information. Speech information is presented and/or received based on the predictive interaction model.