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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
West Corporation, Omaha, NE (US);
Ashok Mitter Khosla, Palo Alto, CA (US);
West Interactive Corporation II, Omaha, NE (US);
Abstract
A method and system for generating a finite state grammar is provided. The method comprises receiving user input of at least two sample phrases; analyzing the sample phrases to determine common words that occur in each of the sample phrases and optional words that occur in only some of the sample phrases; creating a mathematical expression representing the sample phrases, the expression including each word found in the sample phrases and an indication of whether a word is a common word or an optional word; displaying the mathematical expression to a user; allowing the user to alter the mathematical expression; generating a finite state grammar corresponding to the altered mathematical expression; and displaying the finite state grammar to the user.