Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-domain natural language processing architecture
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Application No.: US13711814Application Date: 2012-12-12
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Publication No.: US10282419B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Matthieu Hebert , Jean-Philippe Robichaud , Christopher M. Parisien , Nicolae Duta , Jerome Tremblay , Amjad Almahairi , Lakshmish Kaushik , Maryse Boisvert
- Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Holland & Knight LLP
- Agent Brian J. Colandreo; Michael T. Abramson
- Main IPC: G06F17/27
- IPC: G06F17/27 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
An arrangement and corresponding method are described for multi-domain natural language processing. Multiple parallel domain pipelines are used for processing a natural language input. Each domain pipeline represents a different specific subject domain of related concepts. Each domain pipeline includes a mention module that processes the natural language input using natural language understanding (NLU) to determine a corresponding list of mentions, and an interpretation generator that receives the list of mentions and produces a rank-ordered domain output set of sentence-level interpretation candidates. A global evidence ranker receives the domain output sets from the domain pipelines and produces an overall rank-ordered final output set of sentence-level interpretations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140163959A1 Multi-Domain Natural Language Processing Architecture Public/Granted day:2014-06-12
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