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Enabling chatbots by detecting and supporting affective argumentation

US10839154B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 2018
Grant dateNov 17, 2020
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N20/10
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention detect affective argumentation in text. In an example, an application executing on a computing device accesses text comprising fragments. The application creates a discourse tree from the text. The discourse tree includes nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the fragments and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the fragments. The application matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating a communicative discourse tree. The application determines whether the communicative discourse tree represents text that includes affective argumentation by applying a classification model trained to detect affective argumentation to the communicative discourse tree.

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