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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2005
Dilek Z. Hakkani-tur, Denville, NJ (US);
Jackson J. Liscombe, New York, NY (US);
Guiseppe Riccardi, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Denville, NJ (US);
Jackson J. Liscombe, New York, NY (US);
Guiseppe Riccardi, Hoboken, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device, receiving contextual information regarding the natural language dialog which is related to changes of emotion over time in the dialog, and detecting an emotion of the user based on the received contextual information. Examples of contextual information include, for example, differential statistics, joint statistics and distance statistics.