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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric K. Ringger, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lucian Galescu, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/300 ;
Abstract
A language model comprising a plurality of augmented-word n-grams and probabilities corresponding to such n-grams. Each n-gram is comprised of a sequence of augmented words. Each augmented word is comprised of the orthographic representation of the word together with a tag representing lexical information regarding the word, such as syntactic or semantic information. Also disclosed are a method of building such a language model, a method of automatically recognizing speech using the language model and a speech recognition system that employs the language model.