Natural-Language Rendering of Structured Search Queries

Patent №

US 9,367,607

Granted

2016-06-14

Filed 2012

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13731866

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges that correspond to portions of the text query, accessing a context-free grammar model, identifying query tokens from the grammar model that correspond to the identified nodes and edges, selecting grammars having query tokens that corresponding to each of the identified nodes and edges, and generating structured queries based on the selected grammars, where the structure queries are based on strings generated by the grammars.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/3329G06F 16/243G06F 16/24522G06F 16/248G06F 16/338G06F 16/951G06F 40/211G06Q 10/40+1 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.99
AI hardware0.95
Knowledge representation0.89
Speech0.87
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.

assignment · 297230546

Assignors

VEE, ERIK N., CHATOT, OLIVIER

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

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