Emerging research in Neural Question Generation (NQG) has started to integrate a larger
variety of inputs, and generating questions requiring higher levels of cognition. These trends …

Embodiments of an adaptive virtual intelligent agent (“AVIA”) service are disclosed. It may
include the functions of a human administrative assistant for an enterprise including …

During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have
witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of …

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) systems can infer the semantics of
a spoken utterance directly from an audio signal. However, training an E2E system remains …

Primary Examiner Li B. Zhen Assistant Examiner—Mikayla Chubb (74) Attorney, Agent, or
Firm—Thomas E. Lees, LLC (57) ABSTRACT Embodiments of an adaptive virtual intelligent …

Abstract This chapter describes Conversational Agents (CAs) in the context of Systems
Engineering. A CA is a computer program which interacts with a user through natural …

This paper presents a system to detect multiple intents (MIs) in an input sentence when only
single-intent (SI)-labeled training data are available. To solve the problem, this paper …

In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of embodied conversational
agents for social virtual worlds. The agents provide multimodal communication with their …

Organizations are increasingly delegating customer inquiries to speech dialog systems
(SDSs) to save personnel resources. However, customers often report frustration when …

This research aims to develop a dialogue system for eliminating difficulties encountered in
the efficient and accurate utilization of information for decision makers at emergency …