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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vishal Verma, Mountain View, CA (US);

Gang Xiang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Vishnu Konda, Campbell, CA (US);

Chetan V. Kale, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2458 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/44 (2020.01); G06F 40/211 (2020.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24522 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2468 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3334 (2019.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 40/211 (2020.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/44 (2020.01); G06N 3/0427 (2013.01); G06N 3/0436 (2013.01); G06N 3/0445 (2013.01); G06N 3/0454 (2013.01); G06N 5/022 (2013.01);
Abstract

The subject technology provides for converting natural language input to structured queries. The subject technology receives a user input query in a natural language format. The subject technology determines scores for candidate entities derived from the user input query. The subject technology selects an entity with a highest score among the candidate entities, and converts, using a context-free grammar, the user input query to a structured query based at least in part on the selected entity. The subject technology classifies the structured query to an expected answer type, the expected answer type corresponding to a type of an expected answer of the structured query. The subject technology queries a database based on the expected answer type and the structured query, the database including information corresponding to a knowledge graph. The subject technology provides, for display, an answer to the user input query based on a result of querying the database.


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