Providing a natural language based application program interface

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing a natural language based program interface to software applications. One of the methods includes, obtaining, via a natural language front end, a natural language query or a natural language...

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Main Author Roy, Howard Scott
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.07.2020
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing a natural language based program interface to software applications. One of the methods includes, obtaining, via a natural language front end, a natural language query or a natural language update statement issued by a software application; converting the natural language query or natural language update statement into structured operations to be performed on APIs of a knowledge base; performing the structured operations on the APIs to produce a natural language output statement; and providing, via a natural language output interface, the natural language output statement to the software application. The knowledge base stores entity information according to a data schema and has structured APIs for use by software applications to query the knowledge base; the software applications are limited to communicating with the knowledge base through the interfaces provided by the natural language front end.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201514818579