System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website

摘要

Disclosed is a method for training a spoken dialog service component from website data. Spoken dialog service components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language understanding module, a dialog management module, a language generation module and a text-to-speech module. The method includes selecting anchor texts within a website based on a term density, weighting those anchor texts based on a percent of salient words to total words, and incorporating the weighted anchor texts into a live spoken dialog interface, the weights determining a level of incorporation into the live spoken dialog interface.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
weighting an anchor text in a website, wherein a weight of the anchor text is based on a ratio of salient words in the website to total words in the website, to yield a weighted anchor text; and incorporating the weighted anchor text into a live spoken dialog system by using the weighted anchor text in a live spoken dialog of the live spoken dialog system, the live spoken dialog system engaging in the live spoken dialog with a user, wherein a weight of the weighted anchor text determines a level of incorporation of the weighted anchor text into the live spoken dialog.