Patent ID: 8990126
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: collecting a plurality of task-oriented, human-human dialog interactions between users and human agents for a given domain; after collecting the plurality of task-oriented, human-human dialog interactions, extracting, via a processor, a respective dialog structure associated with each of the plurality of task-oriented, human-human dialog interactions, wherein extracting the respective dialog structure comprises: removing speech repairs and dysfluencies from a respective user utterance in each of the plurality of task-oriented, human-human dialog interactions; and storing the respective task, the subtasks, the dialog act, the set of predicate-argument relations, the clause, inter-clausal relations within the clause, and a set of dominance and precedence relations associated with the respective task as a dialog interaction set represented as a single tree.