Patent ID: 9053087
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A method, implemented using a computing device, for providing a semantic evaluation metric, the method comprising: receiving a spoken query from a user; converting the spoken query to text according to a first speech recognition hypothesis; receiving a first plurality of results, from a web search engine, associated with the first speech recognition hypothesis converted query; converting the spoken query to text according to at least a second speech recognition hypothesis; receiving a second plurality of results, from the web search engine, associated with the at least second speech recognition hypothesis converted query; and comparing the first plurality of results to a second plurality of results associated with the spoken query; generating a semantic difference metric according to the comparison, wherein generating the semantic difference metric comprises: for each of the results in the plurality of results, determining whether the result is present in the second plurality of results; in response to determining that the result is present in the second plurality of results, determining whether a rank of the result is the same in the second plurality of results; and in response to determining that the rank of the result is not the same in the second plurality of results, increasing the semantic difference metric.