公开(公告)号：US09489625B2

公开(公告)日：2016-11-08

申请号：US13891864

申请日：2013-05-10

申请人： SRI International

发明人： Edgar T. Kalns ,  Dayne B. Freitag ,  William S. Mark ,  Necip Fazil Ayan ,  Michael J. Wolverton ,  Thomas J. Lee

IPC分类号： G06N5/02

CPC分类号： G06N5/02

摘要： A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant (“VPA”) application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.

公开(公告)号：US20140337814A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-13

申请号：US13891858

申请日：2013-05-10

申请人： SRI INTERNATIONAL

发明人： Edgar T. Kalns ,  Dayne B. Freitag ,  William S. Mark ,  Necip Fazil Ayan ,  Michael J. Wolverton ,  Thomas J. Lee

IPC分类号： G06F9/44

CPC分类号： G06F8/00 ,  G06F8/20 ,  G06F8/34 ,  G06F8/36 ,  G06F17/30654

摘要： A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant (“VPA”) application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.

摘要翻译： 用于开发虚拟个人助理（“VPA”）应用的平台包括定义用于表示与一个或多个域相关的知识的计算机化结构的本体。 域可以指与VPA应用可以与计算设备用户参与会话式自然语言对话的一类信息和/或活动。 可重用的VPA组件可以链接到本体或包含在本体中。 本体填充代理可以至少部分地自动化使用域特定信息填充本体的过程。 可重用的VPA组件可以通过本体与特定于域的信息相关联。 使用该平台创建的VPA应用可以包括可由可执行的VPA引擎调用的域适配的可重新使用的VPA组件，以确定用户的会话式自然语言输入的可能意图的意义和/或发起适当的系统响应 输入。

公开(公告)号：US09081411B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-14

申请号：US13891858

申请日：2013-05-10

申请人： SRI International

发明人： Edgar T. Kalns ,  Dayne B. Freitag ,  William S. Mark ,  Necip Fazil Ayan ,  Michael J. Wolverton ,  Thomas J. Lee

IPC分类号： G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/45

CPC分类号： G06F8/00 ,  G06F8/20 ,  G06F8/34 ,  G06F8/36 ,  G06F17/30654

摘要： A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant (“VPA”) application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.

摘要翻译： 用于开发虚拟个人助理（“VPA”）应用的平台包括定义用于表示与一个或多个域相关的知识的计算机化结构的本体。 域可以指与VPA应用可以与计算设备用户参与会话式自然语言对话的一类信息和/或活动。 可重用的VPA组件可以链接到本体或包含在本体中。 本体填充代理可以至少部分地自动化使用域特定信息填充本体的过程。 可重用的VPA组件可以通过本体与特定于域的信息相关联。 使用该平台创建的VPA应用可以包括可由可执行的VPA引擎调用的域适配的可重新使用的VPA组件，以确定用户的会话式自然语言输入的可能意图的意义和/或发起适当的系统响应 输入。

公开(公告)号：US20140337266A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-13

申请号：US13891864

申请日：2013-05-10

申请人： SRI INTERNATIONAL

发明人： Edgar T. Kalns ,  Dayne B. Freitag ,  William S. Mark ,  Necip Fazil Ayan ,  Michael J. Wolverton ,  Thomas J. Lee

IPC分类号： G06N5/02

CPC分类号： G06N5/02

摘要： A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant (“VPA”) application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.