Personalized approach to handling hypotheticals in text
US10360301B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 10, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 12, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H50/30
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Mechanisms receive natural language content and analyze the natural language content to generate a parse tree data structure. The mechanisms process the parse tree data structure to identify one or more instances of candidate hypothetical spans in the natural language content. Hypothetical spans are terms or phrases indicative of a hypothetical statement. The mechanisms calculate, for each candidate hypothetical span, a confidence score value indicative of a confidence that the candidate hypothetical span is an actual hypothetical span based on a personalized hypothetical dictionary data structure associated with a source of the natural language content. The mechanisms perform an operation based on the natural language content. The operation is performed with portions of the natural language content corresponding to the one or more identified instances of actual hypothetical spans being given different relative weights within portions of the natural language content than other portions of the natural language content.
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