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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2010
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 system that interacts with a user in an automated dialog system (). The system may include a communicative goal generator () that generates communicative goals based on a first communication received from the user. 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 automatically plans one or more sentences based on the communicative goals generated by the communicative goal generator (). At least one of the planned sentences may be then output to the user ().