US6044347 Patents
An object-oriented dialogue manager is provided which allows a computer System or other dialogue processing System to conduct an efficient dialogue with a human user. In an illustrative embodiment, the dialogue manager pro ceSSes a Set of frames characterizing a Subject of the dialogue, where each frame includes one or more properties that describe an object which may be referenced during the dialogue. A weight is assigned to each of the properties represented by the Set of frames, Such that the assigned weights indicate the relative importance of the correspond ing properties. The dialogue ma
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