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Automatic generation of domain models for virtual personal assistants

US9886950B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 2014
Grant dateFeb 6, 2018
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Expiry dateMar 5, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F40/30
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies for automatic domain model generation include a computing device that accesses an n-gram index of a web corpus. The computing device generates a semantic graph of the web corpus for a relevant domain using the n-gram index. The semantic graph includes one or more related entities that are related to a seed entity. The computing device performs similarity discovery to identify and rank contextual synonyms within the domain. The computing device maintains a domain model including intents representing actions in the domain and slots representing parameters of actions or entities in the domain. The computing device performs intent discovery to discover intents and intent patterns by analyzing the web corpus using the semantic graph. The computing device performs slot discovery to discover slots, slot patterns, and slot values by analyzing the web corpus using the semantic graph. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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