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Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard D. Giuli, Arroyo Grande, CA (US);

Nicholas K. Treadgold, Maroubra, AU;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 17/30654 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant programmed to refer to shared domain concepts using concept nodes are provided. In an example process, user speech input is received. A textual representation of the user speech input is generated. The textual representation is parsed to determine a primary domain representing a user intent for the textual representation. A first substring from the textual representation that corresponds to a first attribute of the primary domain is identified. The identified first substring is parsed to determine a secondary domain representing a user intent for the first substring. A task flow comprising one or more tasks is performed based on the primary domain and the secondary domain.


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