Implicit Question Query Identification

Patent №

US 9,898,554

Granted

2018-02-20

Filed 2013

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14083057

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying implicit question queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query in unstructured form, comparing terms of the query to query templates, determining, based on the comparison, a match of the query terms to a first query template, wherein the first query template is not determined to be indicative of a question query, determining, based on the first query template, a second query template, and determining that the query is an implicit question query in response to the second query template being indicative of a question queries.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.92
Vision0.49
AI hardware0.35
Speech0.11
Evolutionary computation0.02

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 317680933

Assignors

GUPTA, NITIN, POPAT, PREYAS, BAKER, STEVEN D., VENKATACHARY, SRINIVASAN

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

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