US Patent 10453454 Dialog system with self-learning natural language understanding

Example implementations described herein are directed to a dialog system with self-learning natural language understanding (NLU), involving a client-server configuration. If the NLU results in the client is not confident, the NLU will be done again in the server. In the dialog system, the human user and the system communicate via speech or text information. The examples of such products include robots, interactive voice response system (IVR) for call centers, voice-enabled personal devices, car navigation system, smart phones, and voice input devices in the work environments where the human operator cannot operate the devices by hands.