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

Claim 0:
1. A method for transforming question-answer groups into declarative segments, comprising:
identifying, by at least one computing device, a question-answer group from a plurality of question-answer groups;
parsing, by the at least one computing device, the question-answer group to identify a question and an answer;
classifying, by the at least one computing device, the question into a question dialog act category;
classifying, by the at least one computing device, the answer into an answer dialog act category; and
applying, by the at least one computing device, a transformer to the question-answer group to obtain a declarative segment corresponding to the question-answer group based at least in part on the question dialog act category and the answer dialog act category, wherein applying the transformer to the question-answer group to obtain the declarative segment comprises:
identifying a plurality of part-of-speech tags for respective ones of a plurality of words in the question-answer group;
identifying a chunk pattern based at least in part on a combination of the question dialog act category and the answer dialog act category;
matching 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;
identifying 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;
applying the transformation rule to the at least one chunk to obtain at least one transformed chunk; and
generating the declarative segment based at least in part on the at least one transformed chunk.