Systems and methods for an autonomous avatar driver

Abstract

The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This is a continuation-in-part of co-pending United States Application Attorney Docket Number HC-0701, application Ser. No. 11 / 682,813, filed on Mar. 6, 2007, entitled “Systems and Methods for Natural Language Processing”, which is hereby fully incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to a system and method for autonomous avatar driver, and more particularly an autonomous avatar driver capable of natural language processing for improved data querying and enhanced knowledge representation for avatars, virtual healthcare advisors, virtual personal assistants and non player characters within video games, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), virtual worlds, online social networks, and virtual classrooms. The autonomous avatar driver may also be enabled to mine dialog for data that may then be utilized to generate recommendations to a user.[0003]The number of active subscribers to MMOGs is...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0011]To achieve the foregoing and in accordance with the present invention, systems and methods for an autonomous avatar driver are provided. Such systems and methods are useful for providing a highly believable virtual avatar, or character, with interactive ability and knowledge representation and recommendation ability.

Problems solved by technology

Currently, knowledge representation is fatally limited by resource and financial shortcomings.

Such a system is cumbersome, requiring large numbers of man-hours, often with costly specialists, and huge amounts of storage for the data.

Infallibly, despite these huge expenditures, the data set created for the knowledge representation will be incomplete, leading to palpable gaps in the “knowledge” of the character.

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