Method and system for interpreting verbal inputs in multimodal dialog system

摘要

A method, a system and a computer program product for interpreting a verbal input in a multimodal dialog system are provided. The method includes assigning ( 302 ) a confidence value to at least one word generated by a verbal recognition component. The method further includes generating ( 304 ) a semantic unit confidence score for the verbal input. The generation of a semantic unit confidence score is based on the confidence value of at least one word and at least one semantic confidence operator.