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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2014
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Kazuhiro Arai, Tokyo, JP;

Allen L. Gorin, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Giuseppe Riccardi, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Jeremy H. Wright, Warren, NJ (US);

Assignees:

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G10L 15/193 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G06F 17/274 (2013.01); G10L 15/193 (2013.01); G10L 2015/0631 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for automatically acquiring grammar fragments for recognizing and understanding fluently spoken language. Grammar fragments representing a set of syntactically and semantically similar phrases may be generated using three probability distributions: of succeeding words, of preceding words, and of associated call-types. The similarity between phrases may be measured by applying Kullback-Leibler distance to these tree probability distributions. Phrases being close in all three distances may be clustered into a grammar fragment.


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