摘要
以下引文是新闻编辑从新闻编辑提供的背景资料中获得的发明者：“人类可以通过交互式软件应用程序进行人对计算机的对话。”这里称为"自动助理"（也称为"数字代理"、"聊天机器人"、"交互式"个人助理"、"智能个人助理"、"会话代理"等）。例如，人类（当他们与自动化助理交互时，可能会将其作为“用户”）提供命令和/或使用口语自然语言输入(即话语)的请求，在某些情况下，转换成文本，然后进行处理，和/或通过在put中提供文本(例如键入的)自然语言。
Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “Humans may engage in human-to-computer dialogs with interactive software applicationsreferred to herein as “automated assistan ts” (also referred to as “digital agents,” “chatbots,” “interactivepersonal ass istants,” “intelligent personal assistants,” “conversational agents,” etc.). For example, humans(which when they interact with automated assistants may be refe rred to as “users”) may provide commandsand/or requests using spoken natural la nguage input (i.e., utterances) which may in some cases beconverted into text a nd then processed, and/or by providing textual (e.g., typed) natural language in put.
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