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Iterative ontology discovery
Patent number: 10878191
Abstract: Disclosed methods and systems are directed to generating ontological relationships. The methods and systems may include receiving a set of words comprising one or more verbs and a plurality of nouns and determining one or more first ontological relationships between the plurality of nouns based on an association of each of the nouns with at least one of the one or more verbs; and a correspondence between one or more glosses associated with each of the plurality of nouns. The methods and systems may include receiving an input associated with the one or more first ontological relationships, and determining, based on the input, one or more second ontological relationships between the plurality of nouns.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 10, 2016
Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid Rachevsky
System and method for natural language driven search and discovery in large data sources
Patent number: 10847175
Abstract: In some natural language understanding (NLU) applications, results may not be tailored to the user's query. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method includes tagging elements of automated speech recognition (ASR) data based on an ontology stored in a memory. The method further includes indexing tagged elements to an entity of the ontology. The method further includes generating a logical form of the ASR data based on the tagged elements and the indexed entities. The method further includes mapping the logical form to a query to a respective corresponding database stored in the memory. The method further includes issuing the query to the respective corresponding databases. The method further includes presenting results of the query to the user via a display or a voice response system.
Type: Grant
Filed: July 24, 2015
Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventors: Peter Yeh, William Jarrold, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Deepak Ramachandran, Peter Patel-Schneider, Benjamin Douglas
Method for microphone selection and multi-talker segmentation with ambient automated speech recognition (ASR)
Patent number: 10847171
Abstract: Disclosed methods and systems are directed to determining a best microphone pair and segmenting sound signals. The methods and systems may include receiving a collection of sound signals comprising speech from one or more audio sources (e.g., meeting participants) and/or background noise. The methods and systems may include calculating a TDOA and determining, based on the TDOA and via robust statistics, the best pair of microphones. The methods and systems may also include segmenting sound signals from multiple sources.
Type: Grant
Filed: September 24, 2019
Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventors: Pablo Peso Parada, Dushyant Sharma, Patrick Naylor
Automated obscuring system and method
Patent number: 10846429
Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving content from a third-party. The content may be processed to predict the disclosure of sensitive information. The sensitive information may be obscured from a platform user, where the third-party may be a customer and the platform user may be a customer service representative.
Type: Grant
Filed: July 18, 2018
Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventors: Kenneth William Douglas Smith, Uwe Helmut Jost, Jean-Guy Elie Dahan, Fabrizio Lussana, Vittorio Manzone, David Copp
System and method for wireless ordering using speech recognition
Patent number: 10839447
Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for placing an order for a user. The method includes receiving a search from a user, identifying a product category based on the search, presenting to the user a general ordering screen based on the identified product category, selecting and activating a speech recognition grammar tuned for the identified product category, recognizing a first received user utterance with the activated tuned grammar to identify a vendor who offers items in the identified product category, recognizing a second received user utterance with the activated tuned grammar to identify a specific item from the identified vendor, and placing an order for the specific item with the identified vendor for the user. In one aspect, the method further offers to sell the user additional items ancillary to the specific item.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 7, 2019
Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Joseph M. Sommer
Methods and apparatus for reducing latency in speech recognition applications
Patent number: 10832682
Abstract: The method comprises receive first audio comprising speech from a user of a computing device, detecting an end of speech in the first audio, generating an ASR result based, at least in part, on a portion of the first audio prior to the detected end of speech, determining whether a valid action can be performed by a speech-enabled application installed on the computing device using the ASR result, and processing second audio when it is determined that a valid action cannot be performed by the speech-enabled application using the ASR result.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 6, 2020
Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Mark Fanty
Methods and system for iteratively aligning data sources
Patent number: 10824662
Abstract: According to some aspects, a method for aligning a first data source and a second data source during a plurality of iterations comprising a current iteration and a previous iteration is provided. The method comprises generating at least one property alignment hypothesis between at least one first property of the first data source and at least one second property of the second data source; generating a plurality of instance alignment hypotheses between a respective first plurality of instances of the first data source and a respective second plurality of instances of the second data source; and verifying at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one of the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses. Generating the at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or generating the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses is based, at least in part, on at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one instance alignment hypothesis verified during the previous iteration.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 13, 2015
Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventors: David L. Martin, Peter Zei-Chan Yeh, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider, Jan Noessner
Natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests
Patent number: 10817672
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests. Information specifying a weight for each of a plurality of domains is received via a user interface. The plurality of domains each relates to a potential area of interest for the user, and the weight for a domain from among the plurality of domains indicates a level of interest for the user in the domain. A ranking classifier used to rank NLU hypotheses generated by an NLU engine is trained using training data from which features are, at least in part, based on the information specifying a weight for each of the plurality of domains.
Type: Grant
Filed: October 1, 2014
Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Matthieu Hebert