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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Simon Corston, New Westminster, CA;
Ethan R. Bradford, Seattle, WA (US);
Donni McCray, Seattle, WA (US);
Erland Unruh, Seattle, WA (US);
Claes-Fredrik Mannby, Seattle, WA (US);
David J. Kay, Seattle, WA (US);
Keith Trnka, Seattle, WA (US);
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed system provides an efficient method of using a later word or words entered after a previous word along with one or more language models that show which words are likely to occur together to identify a better disambiguated choice for the previous word. To identify the better disambiguated choice for the previous word, the system can evaluate the conditional probability for the later word of various candidate previous words, and select the candidate previous word that has the highest conditional probability. If the conditional probability of the selected candidate previous word exceeds that of the previous word that was entered by at least a factor, then the system can include the selected candidate previous word in a selection list for user selection. The disclosed system also provides an efficient method for using one or more language models and a later word to correct errors in segmenting the word.