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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:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Martin J. Hirzel, Ossining, NY (US);

Avraham E. Shinnar, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Jerome Simeon, New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/24522 (2019.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer natural language conversational agent authors an event-processing rule by carrying out a dialog in natural language with a user. A data model that customizes a dialog and building of the event-processing rule is received. A partial tree data structure is constructed based on a rule's grammar, and specialized based on tokens extracted from the data model. An utterance is received from a user and interpreted according to the grammar as specialized to the data model. Based on the interpreting of the utterance, the grammar, the data model, and context of interactions with the user, a natural language prompt is determined for the computer natural language conversational agent to output to the user. The partial tree data structure is filled based on the natural language prompt and the utterance from the user. The event-processing rule is generated based on the partial tree data structure filled during the dialog.


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