Patent ID: 11880761
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method for adding a new domain to a natural language understanding (NLU) system, the method comprising:
receiving the new domain for the NLU system;
receiving training data for the new domain;
training a domain expert associated with the new domain based on the training data to form a partially trained new domain expert;
sending a first query to existing domain experts in the NLU system, the first query generated by the partially trained new domain expert;
receiving answers from the existing domain experts in the NLU system in response to the first query;
assigning a weight to each of the answers to form weighted answers, the weights generated by the partially trained new domain expert; and
training the partially trained new domain expert based on the weighted answers to form a new domain expert.