Patent ID: 11961507
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for improving content discovery in response to a voice query, the method comprising:
generating a transcription of a voice query;
determining whether the transcription includes a trigger term indicating that an intent of the voice query is to correct a previous voice query; and
in response to determining that the transcription includes a trigger term:
identifying, based on the transcription and data associated with the previous voice query, a first term of the voice query that is similar to a second term of the previous voice query;
temporarily increasing, for the first term, a relaxation rate of an entity recognition model, wherein a number of interpretations considered for the first term is based on the relaxation rate;
identifying a plurality of candidate entities to which the first term refers using the entity recognition model and based on the increased relaxation rate;
performing a search based on the plurality of candidate entities and the data associated with the previous voice query; and
generating for output a search result of the search.