Background The personalization of conversational agents with natural language user
interfaces is seeing increasing use in health care applications, sha** the content …

Speech interfaces are growing in popularity. Through a review of 99 research papers this
work maps the trends, themes, findings and methods of empirical research on speech …

Abstract Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) such as Amazon Alexa have evolved from
conversational agents (CAs) and grown tremendously in popularity and market size due to …

Candidate answers responsive to a user query are analyzed using a natural language
engine to determine appropriate answers from an electronic database. The system and meth …

Primary Examiner Martin Lerner Related US Application Data(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm
PatentBest; Andrew McAleavey (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 09/439,145, filed …

(57) ABSTRACT A real-time system incorporating speech recognition and lin guistic
processing for recognizing a spoken query by a user and distributed between client and …

Introduction................................. 434Concepts.................................... 434Functions: Supporting
System Use............... 435Taking Over Parts of Routine Tasks............... 435Adapting the …

An intelligent query system for processing Voiced-based que ries is disclosed, which uses a
combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed …

(57) ABSTRACT A network based interactive speech system responds in real time to speech-
based queries addressed to a set of topic entries. A best matching response is provided …

Sentence based queries from a user are analyzed to determine appropriate answers from
an electronic database. Text in the queries is dissected to identify different phrases; the …