Patent ID: 8639509
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A confidence computing method, comprising performing the following by a processor of a computer: (a) generating a syntactical parse tree for an interpreted text string, the parse tree including a plurality of sub-trees, each of the sub-trees representing a corresponding section of the interpreted text string; (b) for each of at least one of the plurality of sub-trees: (c) subsequent to a determination, for at least one of the sub-trees, that the at least one sub-tree is accurate, providing an output based on the at least one sub-tree's at least one corresponding section of the interpreted text string; wherein the at least one feature includes a history score which includes, for each of at least one child sub-tree of the respective sub-tree, the respective child sub-tree's previously computed confidence score.