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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2009
Marilyn A. Walker, Morristown, NJ (US);
Owen Christopher Rambow, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Monica Rogati, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marilyn A. Walker, Morristown, NJ (US);
Owen Christopher Rambow, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Monica Rogati, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a task classification system () that interacts with a user. The task classification system () may include a recognizer () that may recognize symbols in the user's input communication, and a natural language understanding unit () that may determine whether the user's input communication can be understood. If the user's input communication can be understood, the natural language understanding unit () may generate understanding data. The system may also include a communicative goal generator that may generate communicative goals based on the symbols recognized by the recognizer () and understanding data from the natural language understanding unit (). The generated communicative goals may be related to information needed to be obtained from the user. The system may further include a sentence planning unit () that may automatically plan one or more sentences based on the communicative goals generated by the communicative goal generator with at least one of the sentences plans being output to the user.