Patent Document ID: 9703769
Application ID: 14877272

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: inserting, via a discriminative classification approach, boundary tags into speech utterance text, the boundary tags identifying boundaries selected from a group comprising phrase boundaries, sentence boundaries, and paragraph boundaries, wherein the discriminative classification approach utilizes syntactic features before and after each word being tagged, to yield boundary marked speech utterance text and unedited text; identifying, via a processor, a coordinating conjunction within the unedited text based on a conjunction tag, wherein the conjunction tag comprises conjunction span information indicating how many words to the left of the conjunction tag a corresponding conjunction includes; and identifying clauses in the speech utterance text based on the boundary marked speech utterance text and the coordinating conjunction.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of classifiers perform the inserting of the boundary tags, the identifying of the coordinating conjunction, and the identifying of the clauses in the speech utterance text.