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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gregory F. Boland, Katonah, NY (US);
James R. Kozloski, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Yu Ma, White Plains, NY (US);
Justin G. Manweiler, Somers, NY (US);
Kevin E. Siemonsen, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Umut Topkara, White Plains, NY (US);
Katherine Vogt, New York, NY (US);
Justin D. Weisz, Stamford, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling a drone includes receiving a natural language request for information about a spatial location, parsing the natural language request into data requests, configuring a flight plan and controlling one or more drones to fly over the spatial location to obtain data types based on the data requests, and extracting and analyzing data to answer the request. The method can include extracting data points from the data types, obtaining labels from a user for one or more of the data points, predicting labels for unlabeled data points from a learning algorithm using the labels obtained from the user, determining the predicted labels are true labels for the unlabeled data points and combining the extracted data, the user labeled data points and the true labeled data points to answer the request for information. The learning algorithm may be active learning using a support vector machine.