A method of implementing an intuitive search interface for tactically searching one or more annotated utterance corpora in a machine learning-based dialogue system, the method comprising:
- identifying an utterance corpus query for searching one or more annotated utterance corpora of a machine learning-based dialogue system, wherein each of the one or more annotated utterance corpora include a plurality of annotated utterance samples according to a prescribed annotation format;
- constructing one or more portions of the utterance corpus query into one or more search expressions based on the prescribed annotation format of the one or more annotated utterance corpora, wherein each of the one or more search expressions is recognizable to an utterance sample retrieval program that searchably interfaces with the one or more annotated utterance corpora of the machine learning-based dialogue system;
- retrieving a subset of annotated utterance samples from the plurality of annotated utterance samples based on satisfying the one or more search expressions associated with the utterance corpus query;
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- returning the subset of annotated utterance samples to an intuitive utterance corpus search interface based on the retrieval.