Patents Assigned to SRI INTERNAITONAL
  • Clarifying natural language input using targeted questions
    Patent number: 9805718
    Abstract: A dialog assistant embodied in a computing system can present a clarification question based on a machine-readable version of human-generated conversational natural language input. Some versions of the dialog assistant identify a clarification target in the machine-readable version, determine a clarification type relating to the clarification target, present the clarification question in a conversational natural language manner, and process a human-generated conversational natural language response to the clarification question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SRI INTERNAITONAL
    Inventors: Necip Fazil Ayan, Arindam Mandal, Jing Zheng