Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Royal Bank of Canada

Ákos Kádár

Ran Zhang

Yanshuai Cao

Afsaneh Fazly

Teng Long

Federico Fancellu

Wenjie Zi

Jackie Chit Kit Cheung

Chenyang Huang

Hamidreza Shahidi

Lili Mou

Keyi Tang

Peng Xu

Wei Yang

A computer system and method for answering a natural language question is provided. The system comprises at least one processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to perform the method. The method comprises receiving a natural language question, generating a SQL query based on the natural language question, generating an explanation regarding a solution to the natural language question as answered by the SQL query, and presenting the solution and the explanation.

System and method for transferable natural language interface

An utterance in any of various languages is processed to derive a predicted label using a generated grammar. The grammar is suitable for deriving meaning of utterances from several languages (polyglot). The utterance is processed by an encoder using word embeddings. The encoder and a decoder process the utterance using the polyglot grammar to obtain a machine-readable result. The machine-readable result is well-formed based on accounting for re-entrances of intermediate variable references. A machine then takes action on the machine-readable result. Ambiguity is reduced by the decoder by the well-formed machine-readable result. Sparseness of the generated polyglot grammar is reduced by using a two-pass approach including placeholders which are ultimately replaced by edge labels.

Machine action based on language-independent graph rewriting of an utterance

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Toronto, Canada

Ákos Kádár