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 3:
3. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein verifying the factual assertion further comprises; forming a question based on the factual assertion; searching a corpus of information for an answer to the formed question; and receiving a result of the search.