Generating dialogue events for natural language system

A pipeline for generating a dialogue event in a natural language processing system, comprising:

• an annotation acquisition machine configured to load, into a computer memory, a computer-readable seed command describing an ordered sequence of two or more top-level dialogue events, wherein:
• a dialogue event includes a client utterance or a computerized assistant response;
• and
• the seed command includes one or more sub-commands, each sub-command corresponding to a portion of the ordered sequence of two or more top-level dialogue events, and a focal sub-command of the one or more sub-commands being parametrized by a seed semantic parameter;
• a synthetic data generation machine configured to:
• re-parametrize the focal sub-command by outputting a plurality of different re-parametrized focal sub-commands wherein, in each re-parametrized focal sub-command, the seed semantic parameter is replaced by one of a plurality of different synthetic semantic parameters;
• and
• for each of the plurality of different synthetic semantic parameters, save a corresponding re-parametrized focal sub-command.

A computer system, comprising:

• a logic device;
• and
• a storage device configured to hold instructions executable by the logic device to:
• load, into a computer memory, a computer-readable seed command describing an ordered sequence of two or more top-level dialogue events, wherein:
• a dialogue event includes a client utterance or a computerized assistant response;
• and
• the seed command includes one or more sub-commands, each sub-command corresponding to a portion of the ordered sequence of two or more top-level dialogue events, and a focal sub-command of the one or more sub-commands being parametrized by a seed semantic parameter;
• re-parametrize the focal sub-command by outputting a plurality of different re-parametrized focal sub-commands wherein, in each re-parametrized focal sub-command, the seed semantic parameter is replaced by one of a plurality of different synthetic semantic parameters;
• and
• for each of the plurality of different synthetic semantic parameters, save a corresponding re-parametrized focal sub-command.