A method used in an electronic equipment (100) generates a set of joint
multimodal interpretations (125) from a set of multimodal interpretations
(115) generated by one or more modalities (105) during a turn, generates
a set of integrated multimodal interpretations (135) including an
integrated multimodal interpretation formed from each joint multimodal
interpretation by unifying the type feature structure of each multimodal
interpretation in the joint multimodal interpretation, and generates a
multilevel confidence score for each integrated multimodal interpretation
based on at least one of a context score, a content score, and a
confidence score of the integrated multimodal interpretation. The method
classifies the multimodal interpretations and generates a set of joint
multimodal interpretations that comprises essentially all possible joint
multimodal interpretations. The multilevel confidence scoring is based on
up to eleven factors, which provides for an accurate ranking of the
integrated multimodal interpretations.