Patent ID: 11915701
Assignee: REFINITIV US ORGANIZATION LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer system to automatically summarize a transcript, the computer system comprising:
a processor programmed to:
access the transcript, wherein the transcript is transcribed from audio having spoken words or phrases relating to a subject matter domain;
generate a plurality of segments based on content of the transcript, each segment comprising a respective portion of the content;
for each segment of the plurality of segments:
provide the segment as input to a machine-learning (ML) estimator specifically trained based on a set of predefined features and labeled data from a gold standard corpus comprising a plurality of gold standard summaries that was generated from other transcripts of corresponding audio having respective spoken words or phrases relating to the subject matter domain,
wherein for each gold standard summary of the plurality of gold standard summaries, a given segment from the corresponding transcript is added to the gold standard summary when a predefined number or percentage of annotators agreed that the given segment should be added to the gold standard summary;
generate, as an output of the ML estimator, a segment score for the segment;

identify a subset of the plurality of segments based on the segment score of each segment; and
generate a summary of the transcript based on the subset of the plurality of segments.