Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.

Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.

Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.

Abstract: Provided is a method of providing a shared neural model by a question-answering system, the method including: learning a shared neural model on the basis of initial model learning data; providing a plurality of user terminals with the shared neural model upon completing the learning of the shared neural model; upon the user terminal updating the shared neural model to a personalized neural model, collecting the updated personalized neural model; updating the shared neural model on the basis of the collected personalized neural model; and providing the updated shared neural model to the plurality of user terminals.

Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.

Abstract: A user terminal, hands-free device and method for hands-free automatic interpretation service. The user terminal includes an interpretation environment initialization unit, an interpretation intermediation unit, and an interpretation processing unit. The interpretation environment initialization unit performs pairing with a hands-free device in response to a request from the hands-free device, and initializes an interpretation environment. The interpretation intermediation unit sends interpretation results obtained by interpreting a user's voice information received from the hands-free device to a counterpart terminal, and receives interpretation results obtained by interpreting a counterpart's voice information from the counterpart terminal.

Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.

Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.

Abstract: A user terminal, hands-free device and method for hands-free automatic interpretation service. The user terminal includes an interpretation environment initialization unit, an interpretation intermediation unit, and an interpretation processing unit. The interpretation environment initialization unit performs pairing with a hands-free device in response to a request from the hands-free device, and initializes an interpretation environment. The interpretation intermediation unit sends interpretation results obtained by interpreting a user's voice information received from the hands-free device to a counterpart terminal, and receives interpretation results obtained by interpreting a counterpart's voice information from the counterpart terminal.

Abstract: A speech recognition system includes: a speed level classifier for measuring a moving speed of a moving object by using a noise signal at an initial time of speech recognition to determine a speed level of the moving object; a first speech enhancement unit for enhancing sound quality of an input speech signal of the speech recognition by using a Wiener filter, if the speed level of the moving object is equal to or lower than a specific level; and a second speech enhancement unit enhancing the sound quality of the input speech signal by using a Gaussian mixture model, if the speed level of the moving object is higher than the specific level. The system further includes an end point detection unit for detecting start and end points, an elimination unit for eliminating sudden noise components based on a sudden noise Gaussian mixture model.

Abstract: An apparatus for searching similar sentences that has a translation sentence database includes an input unit to which a sentence is input; first language processing unit configured to perform language processing on sentences input through the input unit; and first language similarity calculating unit configured to refer to previously translated sentences to extract similar sentences for the first language sentence. Further, the apparatus includes translating unit configured to translate a sentence into a second language sentence; second language processing unit configured to perform language processing on a second language sentence; second language similarity calculating unit configured to refer to the previously translated sentences to extract similar sentences for the second language sentence; and a re-ranking unit configured to combine similar sentence extracting results of the first language with those of the second language to re-rank sentence outputs.

Abstract: An utterance verification method for an isolated word N-best speech recognition result includes: calculating log likelihoods of a context-dependent phoneme and an anti-phoneme model based on an N-best speech recognition result for an input utterance; measuring a confidence score of an N-best speech-recognized word using the log likelihoods; calculating distance between phonemes for the N-best speech-recognized word; comparing the confidence score with a threshold and the distance with a predetermined mean of distances; and accepting the N-best speech-recognized word when the compared results for the confidence score and the distance correspond to acceptance.

Abstract: A method for separating a sound source from a mixed signal, includes Transforming a mixed signal to channel signals in frequency domain; and grouping several frequency bands for each channel signal to form frequency clusters. Further, the method for separating the sound source from the mixed signal includes separating the frequency clusters by applying a blind source separation to signals in frequency domain for each frequency cluster; and integrating the spectrums of the separated signal to restore the sound source in a time domain wherein each of the separated signals expresses one sound source.

Abstract: A Viterbi decoder includes: an observation vector sequence generator for generating an observation vector sequence by converting an input speech to a sequence of observation vectors; a local optimal state calculator for obtaining a partial state sequence having a maximum similarity up to a current observation vector as an optimal state; an observation probability calculator for obtaining, as a current observation probability, a probability for observing the current observation vector in the optimal state; a buffer for storing therein a specific number of previous observation probabilities; a non-linear filter for calculating a filtered probability by using the previous observation probabilities stored in the buffer and the current observation probability; and a maximum likelihood calculator for calculating a partial maximum likelihood by using the filtered probability.

Abstract: A noise cancellation apparatus includes a noise estimation module for receiving a noise-containing input speech, and estimating a noise therefrom to output the estimated noise; a first Wiener filter module for receiving the input speech, and applying a first Wiener filter thereto to output a first estimation of clean speech; a database for storing data of a Gaussian mixture model for modeling clean speech; and an MMSE estimation module for receiving the first estimation of clean speech and the data of the Gaussian mixture model to output a second estimation of clean speech. The apparatus further includes a final clean speech estimation module for receiving the second estimation of clean speech from the MMSE estimation module and the estimated noise from the noise estimation module, and obtaining a final Wiener filter gain therefrom to output a final estimation of clean speech by applying the final Wiener filter gain.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for post-processing a dialogue error in a speech dialogue system using multilevel verification, in which both of a user's current utterance and a whole dialogue flow are taken into account through the multilevel verification including speech recognition results analysis, linguistic analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis. As a result, various errors that may occur in the speech dialogue system are detected, and error post-processing appropriate to a detected error type is performed, so that speech recognition errors may be reduced.

Abstract: Provided is an IPTV system using voice interface which includes a voice input device, a voice processing device, a query processing and content search device, and a content providing device. The voice processing device performs voice recognition to convert voice into a text. The voice processing device includes a voice preprocessing unit, a sound model database, a language model database, and a decoder. The voice preprocessing unit performs preprocessing which includes improving the quality of sound or removing noise for the received voice, and extracts a feature vector. The decoder converts the feature vector into a text by using a sound model and a language model. Moreover, the voice processing device stores the profile and preference of a user to provide personalized service.

Abstract: An utterance verification method for an isolated word N-best speech recognition result includes: calculating log likelihoods of a context-dependent phoneme and an anti-phoneme model based on an N-best speech recognition result for an input utterance; measuring a confidence score of an N-best speech-recognized word using the log likelihoods; calculating distance between phonemes for the N-best speech-recognized word; comparing the confidence score with a threshold and the distance with a predetermined mean of distances; and accepting the N-best speech-recognized word when the compared results for the confidence score and the distance correspond to acceptance.

Abstract: A Viterbi decoder includes: an observation vector sequence generator for generating an observation vector sequence by converting an input speech to a sequence of observation vectors; a local optimal state calculator for obtaining a partial state sequence having a maximum similarity up to a current observation vector as an optimal state; an observation probability calculator for obtaining, as a current observation probability, a probability for observing the current observation vector in the optimal state; a buffer for storing therein a specific number of previous observation probabilities; a non-linear filter for calculating a filtered probability by using the previous observation probabilities stored in the buffer and the current observation probability; and a maximum likelihood calculator for calculating a partial maximum likelihood by using the filtered probability.

Abstract: A method of providing targeted advertisements, includes: generating an advertisement search result using a search query based on a user query or a recommended query; generating an advertisement search result on the basis of a user profile; integrating the advertisement search result generated on the basis of the user profile with the advertisement search result generated by using the search query; and presenting a recommended advertisement list on the basis of the integrated advertisement search result and advertisement information exposed to a user.