Patents by Inventor Jackson J. Liscombe

Jackson J. Liscombe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for building emotional machines
    Patent number: 8204749
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog, receiving contextual information regarding the natural language dialog which is related to changes of emotion over time in the dialog, and detecting an emotion of the user based on the received contextual information. Examples of contextual information include, for example, differential statistics, joint statistics and distance statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Jackson J. Liscombe, Guiseppe Riccardi
  • System and Method for Building Emotional Machines
    Publication number: 20110172999
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog, receiving contextual information regarding the natural language dialog which is related to changes of emotion over time in the dialog, and detecting an emotion of the user based on the received contextual information. Examples of contextual information include, for example, differential statistics, joint statistics and distance statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Jackson J. Liscombe, Guiseppe Riccardi
  • System and method for building emotional machines
    Patent number: 7912720
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device, receiving contextual information regarding the natural language dialog which is related to changes of emotion over time in the dialog, and detecting an emotion of the user based on the received contextual information. Examples of contextual information include, for example, differential statistics, joint statistics and distance statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Jackson J. Liscombe, Guiseppe Riccardi