SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE TO A DATABASE

Patent №

US 7,921,091

Granted

2011-04-05

Filed 2004

Owner

AT&T CORP.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11013836

A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from the data base, processing of the top n pages through a natural language dialog engine and providing a response based on processing the top n pages.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningG06F 16/9538G06F 16/3331G06F 16/3334G06F 16/3344G06F 16/951G06N 20/00G10L 15/22G10L 21/06

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.97
AI hardware0.22
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 163950863

Assignors

COX, RICHARD VANDERVOORT, ESLAMBOLCHI, HOSSEIN, NADJI, BEHZAD, RAHIM, MAZIN G.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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