US 12,190,880 B2
Method and apparatus for multi-party dialogue discourse parsing as a sequence generation
Linfeng Song, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/900,134.
Prior Publication US 2024/0071381 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 2015/227 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:
retrieving a dialogue history including a plurality of speech utterances, each speech utterance including one or more words;
encoding the plurality of speech utterances such that each speech utterance is associated with a sequence identifier indicating an order of each speech utterance in the dialogue history; and
decoding the encoded plurality of speech utterances to generate at least one discourse relation triple corresponding to the dialogue history, the at least one discourse relation triple including a first sequence identifier of a first speech utterance from the plurality of speech utterances, a second sequence identifier of a second speech utterance from the plurality of speech utterances, and a dialogue discourse type.