Appeal 2007-1066
Application 10/170,510
INTRODUCTION
The claims are directed to a system and method for resolving
ambiguity in natural language text and spoken dialogue. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. A system for representing and resolving ambiguity in natural
language text, comprising:
a context tracker that places said natural language text in context to
yield candidate attribute-value (AV) pairs, whereby said context is expressed
as a path of a parameterizable data structure; and
a candidate scorer, associated with said context tracker, that adjusts a
confidence associated with each candidate AV pair based on system intent.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art references to show
unpatentability:
Su US 5,418,717 May 23, 1995
Reed US 6,278,987 B1 Aug. 21, 2001
Alexandros Potamianos et al. (Potamianos), “Dialogue Management In The
Bell Labs Communicator System,” Proc. of the Internat. Conf. Speech
Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 2000.
The rejection as presented by the Examiner is as follows:
1. Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C § 103(a) as unpatentable
over Su, Reed, and Potamianos.
OPINION
The Examiner applies the teachings of Su against representative claim
1. The Examiner finds, however, that Su does not expressly disclose that the
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