Rapid development of virtual personal assistant applications

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 a...

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Main Authors Wolverton Michael J, Mark William S, Ayan Necip Fazil, Freitag Dayne B, Kalns Edgar T, Lee Thomas J
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.11.2016
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS
COMPUTING
COUNTING
PHYSICS
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201313891864