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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2005
Applicants:
Jeffrey Hill, Westford, MA (US);
Yuri Zieman, Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Hill, Westford, MA (US);
Yuri Zieman, Waltham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one aspect, an arbitrary natural language communication is received from a user. A concept recognition process is applied to automatically derive a representation of concepts embodied in the communication. The concept representation is used to provide to a human agent information useful in responding to the natural language communication.