公开(公告)号：GB2495222A

公开(公告)日：2013-04-03

申请号：GB201217449

申请日：2012-09-28

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： GRUBER THOMAS ROBERT ,  BRIGHAM CHRISTOPHER DEAN ,  KEEN DAN ,  PHIPPS BENJAMIN ,  NOVICK GREGORY

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G06F40/00

Abstract: A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an informa­tion-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.