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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
May. 31, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Michel Galley, Seattle, WA (US);
Alessandro Sordoni, Montreal, CA;
Christopher John Brockett, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);
William Brennan Dolan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yangfeng Ji, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Auli, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Margaret Ann Mitchell, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Brian Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples are generally directed towards automatic assessment of machine generated conversational responses. Context-message-response n-tuples are extracted from at least one source of conversational data to generate a set of multi-reference responses. A response in the set of multi-reference responses includes it context-message data pair and rating. The rating indicates a quality of the response relative to the context-message data pair. A response assessment engine generates a metric score for a machine-generated response based on an assessment metric and the set of multi-reference responses. The metric score indicates a quality of the machine-generated conversational response relative to a user-generated message and a context of the user-generated message. A response generation system of a computing device, such as a digital assistant, is optimized and adjusted based on the metric score to improve the accuracy, quality, and relevance of responses output to the user.