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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Applicants:
Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ye-yi Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Leon Wong, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention uses a natural language understanding system that is currently being trained to assist in annotating training data for training that natural language understanding system. Unannotated training data is provided to the system and the system proposes annotations to the training data. The user is offered an opportunity to confirm or correct the proposed annotations, and the system is trained with the corrected or verified annotations.