Patent Document ID: 7742911
Application ID: 11095299

Base Claim:
1. A spoken language understanding method, the method causing a computing device to perform steps comprising: semantically parsing, via a processor of the computing device, a received utterance from a user by semantic role labeling to generate at least one semantic role label for only head words of phrases in the received utterance; extracting a predicate from the semantically parsed utterance; identifying a syntactic path between head words and their respective extracted predicate; estimating an intent of the user based on the extracted predicate and based on predicate/argument pairs, each predicate argument pair comprising a predicate verb and an argument which completes the predicate verb; and responding to the received utterance based on the estimated intent.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further causing the computing device to perform steps comprising extracting at least one argument from the semantically parsed utterance and estimating at least one associated named entity using the at least one argument.