Narrative Science Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Narrative Scienc Inc.

Daniel Joseph Platt

Nathan Drew Nichols

Michael Justin Smathers

Lawrence A Birnbaum

Alexander Rudolf Sippel

Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, Iii

Jared Lorince

Jonathan Alden Drake

Peter Horace Sherman

Maia Lewis Meza

Clayton Nicholas Norris

Bo He

Kathryn McCarthy Hughes

Disclosed herein is computer technology that provides adaptive mechanisms for learning concepts that are expressed by natural language sentences, and then applies this learning to appropriately classify new natural language sentences with the relevant concept that they express.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for adaptively classifying sentences based on the concepts they express to improve natural language understanding

Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for automatically generating narratives from visualization data

Disclosed herein is computer technology that applies natural language processing (NLP) techniques to training data to generate information used to train a natural language generation (NLG) system to produce output that stylistically resembles the training data. In this fashion, the NLG system can be readily trained with training data supplied by a user so that the NLG system is adapted to produce output that stylistically resembles such training data. In an example, an NLP system detects a plurality of linguistic features in the training data. These detected linguistic features are then aggregated into a specification data structure that is arranged for training the NLG system to produce natural language output that stylistically resembles the training data. Parameters in the specification data structure can be linked to objects in an ontology used by the NLG system to facilitate the training of the NLG system based on the detected linguistic features.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using natural language processing and concept expression templates to train a natural language generation system

Disclosed herein is an NLP system that is able to extract meaning from a natural language message using improved parsing techniques. Such an NLP system can be used in concert with an NLG system to interactively interpret messages and generate response messages in an interactive conversational stream. The parsing can include (1) named entity recognition that contextualizes the meanings of words in a message with reference to a knowledge base of named entities understood by the NLP and NLG systems, (2) syntactically parsing the message to determine a grammatical hierarchy for the named entities within the message, (3) reduction of recognized named entities into aggregations of named entities using the determined grammatical hierarchy and reduction rules to further clarify the message's meaning, and (4) mapping the reduced aggregation of named entities to an intent or meaning, wherein this intent/meaning can be used as control instructions for an NLG process.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for contextualizing words to a knowledge base using natural language processing

Disclosed herein is computer technology that provides adaptive mechanisms for learning concepts that are expressed by natural language sentences, and then applies this learning to appropriately classify new natural language sentences with the relevant concept that they express. The computer technology can also discover the uniqueness of terms within a training corpus, and sufficiently unique terms can be flagged for the user for possible updates to an ontology for the system.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for adaptive natural language understanding with term discovery

To provide users with more flexibility for focusing and controlling visualizations of data, the inventors disclose new data structures and artificial intelligence logic that can be utilized in conjunction with notional specifications of focus criteria for visualizations. In an example embodiment, the inventors disclose technology that can be used to generate data structures that represent notional characteristics of the visualization data which in turn can be tied to specific elements of the visualization data to support interactive focusing of visualizations in notional terms that correspond to interesting aspects of the data. This allows a user to specify using notional criteria how a visualization should be focused on specific elements without needing to know in advance what those specific elements are.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for interactively using narrative analytics to focus and control visualizations of data

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using natural language processing to train a natural language generation system with respect to date and number textual features

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from visualization data

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from line charts

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using natural language processing to train a natural language generation system with respect to numeric style features

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from bar charts

Narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to interactively generate narratives from visualization data

Applied artificial intelligence technology for building a knowledge base using natural language processing

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from multiple visualizations

Disclosed are new data structures and artificial intelligence logic that can be utilized to evaluate the drivers of data presented in visualizations. For example, a processor can translate a specification of a driver to be evaluated with respect to a measure shown in a visualization into narrative analytics, where the narrative analytics are configured to evaluate the driver in the context of a data set for the visualization based on a plurality of data structures and processing logic. In turn, a narrative story can be automatically generated about the evaluated driver (for example, describing an impact that the driver candidate may have had on the subject measure of the visualization).

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Daniel Joseph Platt