Patent Document ID: 9361884
Application ID: 13793822
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing system, data generated based on spoken user responses to prompts generated by the computing system that are associated with a dialogue, the data comprising a portion corresponding to one or more of the spoken user responses spoken before a subsequently spoken response of the spoken user responses; generating, by at least one processor of the computing system, a list of natural language understanding (NLU)-ranked semantic interpretations for the subsequently spoken response; determining, by the at least one processor and based on the portion corresponding to the one or more of the spoken user responses spoken before the subsequently spoken response, a plurality of key-value pairs corresponding to different possible resolutions for an unresolved anaphora in the subsequently spoken response; and selecting, by the at least one processor, from amongst the plurality of key-value pairs, and based on a context of the dialogue determined from the one or more of the spoken user responses spoken before the subsequently spoken response, a key-value pair corresponding to a semantic interpretation in the list that resolves the unresolved anaphora in the subsequently spoken response.