Patent ID: 11914954
Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying at least one program that, when executed by at least one computing device, directs the at least one computing device to:
identify a question-answer group from a plurality of question-answer groups;
parse the question-answer group to identify a question and an answer;
classify the question into a question dialog act category;
classify the answer into an answer dialog act category; and
apply a transformer to the question-answer group to obtain a declarative segment corresponding to the question-answer group, wherein, to apply the transformer to the question-answer group to obtain the declarative segment corresponding to the question-answer group, the at least one computing device is configured to:
identify a plurality of part-of-speech tags for respective ones of a plurality of words in the question-answer group;
identify a chunk pattern based at least in part on a combination of the question dialog act category and the answer dialog act category;
match the chunk pattern to at least one chunk from the plurality of words based at least in part on the plurality of part-of-speech tags;
identify a transformation rule from a plurality of transformation rules based at least in part on the chunk pattern and the combination of the question dialog act category and the answer dialog act category;
apply the transformation rule to the at least one chunk to obtain at least one transformed chunk; and
generate the declarative segment based at least in part on the at least one transformed chunk.