Understand User's Intent from Speech and Text

时间:2023-07-02 17:25:25

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/IntentUnderstanding/

Understanding what users like to do/need to get is critical in human computer interaction. When natural user interface like speech or natural language is used in human-computer interaction, such as in a spoken dialogue system or with an internet search engine, language understanding becomes an important issue.  Intent understanding is about indentifying the action a user wants a computer to take or the information she/he would like to obtain, conveyed in a spoken utterance or a text query.

In this project, we develop robust data-driven technologies applicable todifferent domains, make them morepractical by leveraging large amount of unlabeled data via unsupervised/semi-supervised machine learning;by innovating machine learning algorithms that work better with less data or mismatched data; and by augmenting statistical models with domain knowledge obtainedin a semi-supervised fashion.Research activities fall into the following areas:

  • Data-Driven Approaches to Spoken Language/Query Understanding
  • Unsupervised/Semi-Supervised Learning
  • Automatic/Semi-automatic Acquisition of Domain Knowledge
  • Authoring Tools for Spoken Language Understanding
  • Application of Intent Undrestanding Technology

We have contributed to Microsoft products from the following teams:

  • Microsoft Live Search/Commerce Search
  • Microsoft adCenter
  • Microsoft Speech Component Group
  • Tellme
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Understand User's Intent from Speech and Text
Li Deng    
Understand User's Intent from Speech and Text
Y. C. Ju    
Understand User's Intent from Speech and Text
Dong Yu    
Understand User's Intent from Speech and Text
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