Methods for Building an Intelligent Computing Device Based on Linguistic Analysis

Methods for building an intelligent computing device for interacting with users through voice or text conversations. The device uses linguistic analysis methods to detect hidden intentions in a user input, and produces machine responses that address the user's needs. The linguistic analysis includes syntactic and semantic and contextual analysis, and identifies source entities and target entities in the user expression together with a likelihood value that the source entity may have an intention to do something. The system further detects what the user actually needs and then produces machine responses that can perform tasks for the user.