Patent ID: 9582608
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of providing cross-domain semantic ranking of complete input phrases for a digital assistant, comprising: receiving a training corpus comprising a collection of complete input phrases that span a plurality of semantically distinct domains; for each of a plurality of distinct words present in the collection of complete input phrases, calculating a respective word indexing power across the plurality of domains based on a respective normalized entropy for said word, wherein the respective normalized entropy is based on a total number of domains in which said word appears and how representative said word is for each of the plurality of domains; for each complete input phrase in the collection of complete input phrases, calculating a respective phrase indexing power across the plurality of domains based on an aggregation of the respective word indexing powers of all constituent words of said complete input phrase; obtaining respective domain-specific usage frequencies of the complete input phrases in the training corpus; and generating a cross-domain ranking of the collection of complete input phrases based at least on the respective phrase indexing powers of the complete input phrases and the respective domain-specific usage frequencies of the complete input phrases.