Natural language processing utilizing logical tree structures and propagation of knowledge through logical parse tree structures

• Main Authors: Jared Michael Dean Smythe, Robert Louis Neilsen, Eric Mitchell Woods, Nicholas Bruno, Saeid Sakhitab
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.07.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Mechanisms are provided for processing logical relationships in natural language content. Natural language content is received,upon which a reasoning operation is to be performed. A first parse representation of the natural language content is generated, by a parser, by performing natural language processing on the natural language content. A logical parse of the first parse is generated by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content. A reasoning operation on the logical parse is executed to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content. The logical parse comprises nodes and edges linking nodes. At least one knowledge value is associated with each node in the logical parse. The at least one knowledge value of at least a subset of the nodes in the logical parse is propagated to one or more other nodes in the logical parse based on propagation rules.