Rapid development of virtual personal assistant applications

    公开(公告)号:US09489625B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-08

    申请号:US13891864

    申请日:2013-05-10

    申请人: SRI International

    IPC分类号: G06N5/02

    CPC分类号: G06N5/02

    摘要: A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant (“VPA”) application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.

    Vehicle personal assistant
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    发明授权
    Vehicle personal assistant 有权
    车辆个人助理

    公开(公告)号:US09085303B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-07-21

    申请号:US13678213

    申请日:2012-11-15

    申请人: SRI International

    摘要: A vehicle personal assistant to engage a user in a conversational dialog about vehicle-related topics, such as those commonly found in a vehicle owner's manual, includes modules to interpret spoken natural language input, search a vehicle knowledge base and/or other data sources for pertinent information, and respond to the user's input in a conversational fashion. The dialog may be initiated by the user or more proactively by the vehicle personal assistant based on events that may be currently happening in relation to the vehicle. The vehicle personal assistant may use real-time inputs obtained from the vehicle and/or non-verbal inputs from the user to enhance its understanding of the dialog and assist the user in a variety of ways.

    摘要翻译: 车辆个人助理将用户引入关于车辆相关主题(例如车辆用户手册中常见的那些)的对话对话中,包括解释口语自然语言输入,搜索车辆知识库和/或其他数据源的模块 相关信息,并以对话方式响应用户的输入。 该对话可由用户或由车辆个人助理根据当前可能相对于该车辆发生的事件主动发起。 车辆个人助理可以使用从车辆获得的实时输入和/或来自用户的非语言输入来增强对对话的理解并以各种方式帮助用户。