The technology behind personal digital assistants: An overview of the system architecture and key components

R Sarikaya - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have long envisioned that one day computers will understand natural language and
anticipate what we need, when and where we need it, and proactively complete tasks on our …

Service for develo** dialog-driven applications

VS Anbazhagan, RKS Pokkunuri… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
(Continued) Primary Examiner—Huyen X Vo (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Robert C.
Kowert; Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, PC ABSTRACT A natural language …

Scaling statistical language understanding systems across domains and intents

R Sarikaya, A Deoras, FA Celikyilmaz… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A scalable statistical language understanding (SLU) system uses a fixed
number of understanding models that scale across domains and intents (ie single vs …

Multimodal conversational AI: A survey of datasets and approaches

A Sundar, L Heck - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.06907, 2022 - arxiv.org
As humans, we experience the world with all our senses or modalities (sound, sight, touch,
smell, and taste). We use these modalities, particularly sight and touch, to convey and …

Domain adaptation of recurrent neural networks for natural language understanding

A Jaech, L Heck, M Ostendorf - arxiv preprint arxiv:1604.00117, 2016 - arxiv.org
The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for
natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to …

Zero-shot learning of intent embeddings for expansion by convolutional deep structured semantic models

YN Chen, D Hakkani-Tür, X He - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent surge of intelligent personal assistants motivates spoken language
understanding of dialogue systems. However, the domain constraint along with the inflexible …

Domain attention with an ensemble of experts

YB Kim, K Stratos, D Kim - … of the 55th Annual Meeting of the …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
An important problem in domain adaptation is to quickly generalize to a new domain with
limited supervision given K existing domains. One approach is to retrain a global model …

Back-end task fulfillment for dialog-driven applications

VS Anbazhagan, S Sivasubramanian… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
US10891152B2 - Back-end task fulfillment for dialog-driven applications - Google Patents
US10891152B2 - Back-end task fulfillment for dialog-driven applications - Google Patents …

[PDF][PDF] New transfer learning techniques for disparate label sets

YB Kim, K Stratos, R Sarikaya… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
In natural language understanding (NLU), a user utterance can be labeled differently
depending on the domain or application (eg, weather vs. calendar). Standard domain …

Efficient large-scale neural domain classification with personalized attention

YB Kim, D Kim, A Kumar… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we explore the task of map** spoken language utterances to one of
thousands of natural language understanding domains in intelligent personal digital …