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RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS

  • US 20140337266A1
  • Filed: 05/10/2013
  • Published: 11/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for populating an ontology with content for use in creating a virtual personal assistant (“

  • VPA”

    ) computer application for a domain of interest, the VPA application executable to determine a likely intended goal of a computing device user based on conversational natural language input of the computing device user, execute a task on behalf of the computing device user, and formulate a likely appropriate system response to the conversational natural language input, the method comprising, with a computing system;

    obtaining the content in an automated fashion from one or more Internet web pages that support electronic interactions with computing device users relating to items in the domain of interest;

    analyzing the content using the ontology, the ontology defining a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains, each domain referring to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA computer application may conduct a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user;

    determining a characteristic that the content has in common with at least a portion of the ontology; and

    defining a data relationship between the content and the ontology based on the common characteristic.

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