System and method for using a library to interactively design natural language spoken dialog systems

A system for reusing spoken dialog components, the system comprising:

• a processing device configured to receive user input selections indicating ones of a plurality of spoken dialog data stored in a library;
• an extractor configured to extract the ones of the plurality of spoken dialog data;
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• a model building module configured to build one of a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) model or an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model based on the extracted ones of the plurality of spoken dialog data.

A machine-readable medium having recorded therein instructions for a processor, the instructions comprising:

• a set of instructions for receiving user input indicating selections of spoken language dialog data from a library;
• a set of instructions for extracting the selections of spoken language dialog data from the library;
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• a set of instructions for building at least one of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model or a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) model based on the selected spoken language dialog data.

A system for reusing spoken dialog components, the system comprising:

• means for receiving user input indicating selections of spoken language dialog data from a library of reusable components;
• means for extracting the selections of spoken language dialog data from the library;
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• means for building at least one of a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) model or an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model based on the selected spoken language dialog data.