Natural Language Understanding:

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Natural Language Understanding
Conceptual Speech Recognition

• Speaker
• Philippe Roy
• Founder and CTO
• Conceptual Speech Technologies, LLC
• proy_at_conceptualspeech.com
• http//www.conceptualspeech.com
• 561-202-8457

Its not how you say it, its what you mean!
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Communications back to basics
Objective
Communicate concepts
Tools used to achieve objective
Perception - vision, hearing, touch
Syntax - words, rules
Semantic
Mediums
Sound - voices, recordings
Writing - paper, e-mails
Key points
Words are analyzed in relationship with each
other.
Meanings are considered.
Speech recognitions possibilities explode.
Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
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Processing language through CSR
Medium - Sound - Writing
Potentially recognized words
Syntactically valid sequences of words
Syntactic Analysis
Sound Analysis
Conceptual Analysis
Sequences of words that are syntactically valid
and form a valid concept
Process Conceptual Speech Recognition
Most probable concept
Goal the concept
Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
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Achievements unique to CSR
Conceptual Speech Recognition...

• truly understands language (manipulates
  concepts).

• allows true natural language.

• can react flexibly to understanding.

• detects the mood in communications.

• is a breakthrough at the beginning of its
  technological road, not at the end.

Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
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Introduction to conceptual representation

Descriptor
Role
Filler
Variable (VAR)
a red car
Predicate
Predicate
PPtypecarcolorred
Action or state primitive
Role-filler pairs
a colored car
PPtypecarcolor(color)
is a red car a car?
?PPtypecarcolorredPPtypecar TRUE
is a red car a colored car?
?PPtypecarcolorredPPtypecarcolor(color
) TRUE
(color) red
is a colored car a red car?
?PPtypecarcolor(color)PPtypecarcolorre
d FALSE
Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
patent pending
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John remembered that he gave his red car to
Paul
MTRANSactorJohn fromLTM
toCP timepast
mobjectATRANSobjectPPtypecarcolorred
fromJohn
toPaul timepast
(Concept)
Does the fact that John remembered that he gave
his red car to Paul have anything to do with the
transaction of an object?
?(Concept) has ATRANSobject(Object)
TRUE (Object) PPtypecarcolorred
Does the fact that John remembered that he gave
his red car to Paul have anything to do with the
past memory of a transaction from someone to
Paul?
?(Concept) has MTRANSmobjectATRANSobject(Objec
t)from(Who)toPaul
timepast
TRUE (Object) PPtypecarcolorred (Who)
John
Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
patent pending
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Practical implementations of CSR
Text understanding
Speech recognition
CLUE
Conceptual Speech Commander

• e-mail reader
• intelligent automated e-mail
  answering
• data-mining
• search engines

• e-mail reader
• intelligent automated e-mail
  answering
• data-mining
• search engines

• e-mail reader
• intelligent automated e-mail
  answering
• data-mining
• search engines

• e-mail reader
• intelligent automated e-mail
  answering
• data-mining
• search engines

• e-mail reader
• intelligent automated e-mail
  answering
• data-mining
• search engines

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

• call routing
• automated answering
• command control
• embedded input
• dictation

Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
future
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Conceptual Speech Commander and CLUE
Conceptual Speech Commander and CLUE include
Dictionary Explorer to set-up the conceptual
domain.
Try CLUE online!
Send an e-mail to air-scheduling-response_at_conceptu
alspeech.com with a scheduling question.
Philippe Roy Conceptual Speech Technologies,
LLC 561-202-8457 - proy_at_conceptualspeech.com http
//www.conceptualspeech.com
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Conceptual Speech Technologies, LLC
Its not how you say it, its what you mean!
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ech.com 561-202-8457