Patent ID: 7949536
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying verbal phrases, the method comprising: defining, using a processing unit, a context free grammar for an application command of an application, the context free grammar identifying at least one valid subset for the application command, the defining comprising applying a subsequence option to a first portion of the application command to generate a first portion of a valid subset for the first portion of the application command and applying an ordered subset option to a second portion, different than the first portion, of the same application command to generate a second portion of the valid subset for the second portion of the application command, the subsequence option specifying acceptable utterances as comprising one or more command words of the application command in consecutive order with no missing interim command words, the ordered subset option specifying acceptable utterances as comprising one or more command words of the application command in order.