Nuance Communications, Inc.
System and method for processing out of vocabulary compound words

Abstract:

A system and method for out-of-vocabulary compound word handling is provided. Embodiments may include storing a plurality of compound word rules and compound word dictionaries in a database. Embodiments may also include evaluating membership criteria associated with a received compound word, wherein membership criteria includes at least one of dictionary based or part of speech (POS) based criteria. Embodiments may further include applying one or more filtering rules to the received compound word.