Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yordan Kirilov Zaykov

Dmitriy Meyerzon

John Michael Winn

Matteo Venanzi

Alexander Armin Spengler

Pavel Myshkov

Ivan Korostelev

Elena Pochernina

John Guiver

Vladimir V Gvozdev

Nikita Voronkov

Omar Zia Khan

Hui Li

Samuel Alexander Webster

Martin Kukla

Cheng Zhang

Thomas Minka

Anthony Arnold Wieser

Junyi Chai

Yingzhen Li

Marius Bunescu

Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato

Noura Farra

Sravya Narala

Sanil Rajput

Anna-Lena Popkes

Hiske Catharina Overweg

In various examples there is a computer-implemented method of database construction. The method comprises storing a knowledge graph comprising nodes connected by edges, each node representing a topic. Accessing a topic type hierarchy comprising a plurality of types of topics, the topic type hierarchy having been computed from a corpus of text documents. One or more text documents are accessed and the method involves labelling a plurality of the nodes with one or more labels, each label denoting a topic type from the topic type hierarchy, by, using a deep language model; or for an individual one of the nodes representing a given topic, searching the accessed text documents for matches to at least one template, the template being a sequence of words and containing the given topic and a placeholder for a topic type; and storing the knowledge graph comprising the plurality of labelled nodes.

Knowledge base with type discovery

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for cross-provider topic conflation. In aspects, a request relating to one or more topics may be received by a content surfacing platform. One or more data sources of multiple content providers may be searched for documents relating to the topic(s). Document content (e.g., document metadata and sentences, phrases, and other word content within the document) relating to the topic(s) may be extracted from the documents of the various content providers. The document content may be classified and/or separated into subparts. The subparts may be clustered and/or conflated by topic, thereby removing duplicated data while preserving the unique information in each subpart. The conflated topics may be stored in a single knowledge base, such as an enterprise knowledge graph, and/or presented in response to the request.

Cross-provider topic conflation

A method of operating a neural network, comprising: at each input node of an input layer, weighting a respective input element received by that node by applying a first class of probability distribution, thereby generating a respective set of output parameters describing an output probability distribution; and from each input node, outputting the respective set of output parameters to one or more nodes in a next, hidden layer of the network, thereby propagating the respective set of output parameters through the hidden layers to an output layer; the propagating comprising, at one or more nodes of at least one hidden layer, combining the sets of input parameters and weighting the combination by applying a second class of probability distribution, thereby generating a respective set of output parameters describing an output probability distribution, wherein the first class of probability distribution is more sparsity inducing than the second class of probability distribution.

Interpretable neural network

Examples described herein generally relate to a computer system including a knowledge graph storing a plurality of entities. A mining of a set of enterprise source documents within an enterprise intranet is performed, by a plurality of knowledge mining toolkits, to determine a plurality of entity names. The plurality of entity names are linked based on entity metadata by traversing various relationships between people, files, sites, groups, associated with entities. An entity record is generated within a knowledge graph for a mined entity name from the linked entity names based on an entity schema and ones of the set of enterprise source documents associated with the mined entity name. The entity record includes attributes aggregated from the ones of the set of enterprise source documents associated with the mined entity name.

Enterprise knowledge graphs using multiple toolkits

Mining of a set of enterprise source documents within an enterprise intranet is performed, by a plurality of knowledge mining toolkits, to determine a plurality of entity names. A plurality of entity records are generated within a knowledge graph for mined entity names from the entity names based on an entity schema and ones of the set of enterprise source documents associated with the mined entity names. Pattern recognition is applied to an active document using an enterprise named entity recognition (ENER) system to identify potential entity names within the document that match a respective one of a plurality of entity records in the knowledge graph. One or more matching entity names are annotated within the document with information from the knowledge graph for the respective ones of the plurality of entity records. The annotated information is displayed with the active document.

Annotations for enterprise knowledge graphs using multiple toolkits

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Yordan Kirilov Zaykov