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The utterance selection module is a component of a dialog system that is responsible for selecting the most appropriate utterance or response to a given user input. This module typically receives input from a variety of other modules, such as the natural language understanding module, the conversation control module, and the ontology extraction module. It then uses this information to select the most appropriate utterance or response from a set of pre-defined options.
The utterance selection module typically includes a set of rules or algorithms that define how the system should select the most appropriate utterance or response. For example, the module may use rules to identify the key words and phrases in the user’s input, and then use these words and phrases to select an appropriate response from a set of pre-defined options. It may also use algorithms to evaluate the relevance or likelihood of different responses, and then select the one that is most appropriate based on the current context and the user’s goals and preferences.
Once the utterance has been selected, it is passed to the language generation module, which converts it into natural language text that can be output to the user. The language generation module may also apply additional processing, such as prosody modeling or voice transformation, to make the selected utterance more natural and expressive.
Overall, the function of the utterance selection module is to help the dialog system select the most appropriate utterance or response to a given user input. This can help improve the quality and accuracy of the system’s responses, and make the interaction more natural and effective for the user.
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[DOC] Improving Speech Recognizer Performance in a Dialog System Using [DOC] from cmu.edu A Chotimongkol – cs.cmu.edu … The reranked concept error rate is 9.68%, which is a 1.22% relative improvement from the baseline. Adding an utterance selection module into a reranking process did not improve the reranking performance beyond the number achieved by reranking every utterance. … Related articles – View as HTML – All 3 versions