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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Levit, San Jose, CA (US);
Umut Ozertem, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Padma Varadharajan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karthik Raghunathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Issac Alphonso, San Jose, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples of the present disclosure describe generation of a multi-arc confusion network to improve, for example, an ability to return alternatives to output generated. A confusion network comprising token representations of lexicalized hypotheses and normalized hypotheses is generated. Each arc of the confusion network represents a token of a lexicalized hypothesis or a normalized hypothesis. The confusion network is transformed into a multi-arc confusion network, wherein the transforming comprising realigning at least one token of the confusion network to span multiple arcs of the confusion network. Other examples are also described.