@inproceedings{ma2015knowledge, author = {Ma, Yi and Crook, Paul A. and Sarikaya, Ruhi and Fosler-Lussier, Eric}, title = {Knowledge Graph Inference for Spoken Dialog Systems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015}, year = {2015}, month = {April}, abstract = {We propose Inference Knowledge Graph, a novel approach of remapping existing, large scale, semantic knowledge graphs into Markov Random Fields in order to create user goal tracking models that could form part of a spoken dialog system. Since semantic knowledge graphs include both entities and their attributes, the proposed method merges the semantic dialog-state-tracking of attributes and the database lookup of entities that fulfill users’ requests into one single unified step. Using a large semantic graph that contains all businesses in Bellevue, WA, extracted from Microsoft Satori, we demonstrate that the proposed approach can return significantly more relevant entities to the user than a baseline system using database lookup.}, publisher = {IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/knowledge-graph-inference-for-spoken-dialog-systems/}, edition = {Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015}, }