Patent Document ID: 9483582
Application ID: 14484489

Base Claim:
1. A method for verifying factual assertions in natural language, the method comprising: monitoring a natural language input, wherein the natural language input includes an audio input; processing the audio input into a digital input by an audio input processing module; transmitting the digital input to a transcription module; transcribing the digital input into a natural language text input by a speech transcription engine within the transcription module which matches the audio input to one or more acoustic models detailed by an electronic database; identifying a phrase within the natural language text input, wherein the phrase comprises a subject, an object, and a relation; determining if the phrase is a statement of opinion; determining if the phrase is an indication of a consequence of a prior statement; identifying the phrase as a factual assertion if the phase is not a statement of opinion and not an indication of a consequence of a prior statement; verifying the factual assertion in the natural language text input; and outputting a notification to a user of a result of the verification.

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Claim 5:
5. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein verifying the factual assertion further comprises; comparing the result to the factual assertion, wherein the factual assertion is true when the result supports the factual assertion and the factual assertion is false if the result rejects the factual assertion and the factual assertion is inconclusive if the result neither supports or rejects the factual assertion.