Hierarchichal language models

A language model and model technology, applied in speech analysis, speech recognition, instruments, etc., can solve problems such as insufficient data language model and inability to accurately process speech.

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-10-06
NUANCE COMM INC
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Although these systems may contain one or more language models to process user responses, insufficient data may be used to build language models tailored to specific prompts
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[0021] The invention disclosed herein relates to a method of constructing a hierarchy of context models and utilizing these context models to convert speech to text. The method of this embodiment can be used in speech recognition systems and dialogue-based natural language understanding systems. Specifically, the present invention can construct multiple context models from different user language sessions, documents, partial documents, and responses in the form of user utterances. These context models can be organized or grouped into related pairs in a bottom-up fashion using known distance scales. Notably, composing context models into related pairs can be achieved automatically and dynamically at runtime. Related pairs of context models can be combined to form a parent context model. This process can be repeated until a hierarchical tree-like structure of the context model is formed. The hierarchy may have a single root node from which other nodes extend. Note that each ...

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The invention disclosed herein concerns a method of converting speech to text using a hierarchy of contextual models. The hierarchy of contextual models can be statistically smoothed into a language model. The method can include processing text with a plurality of contextual models. Each one of the plurality of contextual models can correspond to a node in a hierarchy of the plurality of contextual models. Also included can be identifying at least one of the contextual models relating to the text and processing subsequent user spoken utterances with the identified at least one contextual model.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of speech recognition and dialog-based systems, and more particularly to the conversion of speech to text using language models. Background technique [0002] Speech recognition is the process of using a computer to convert an acoustic signal received by a microphone into a set of text, numbers or symbols. These recognized words can then be used in various computer software applications for, for example, document preparation, data entry, and prompting and control. The development of speech recognition technology provides an important way to improve user efficiency. [0003] Speech recognition systems can model and classify acoustic signals to form sound models, which are representations of basic language units called phonemes. Upon receiving the acoustic signals, the speech recognition system analyzes the speech signals, recognizes a series of speech models within the acoustic signals, and derives a list of ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/28G10L15/18
CPCG10L15/183G10L15/197G10L15/26
Inventor 马克·E·爱普斯坦
Owner NUANCE COMM INC
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