Patent ID: 9672204
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for acquiring paraphrases for use in natural language processing applications, the method being conducted using an automated survey platform that is configured to permit access to a group of crowd-workers for performing portions of a task while other portions are performed by the automated survey platform, and using a processor configured to perform the method, the method comprising: receiving raw text as input to the processor, the raw text being a result of obtaining opinions of a group of consumers or customers of a product or service; sentence breaking the raw text into individual sentences by the processor by use of automatic natural language processing techniques; providing the individual sentences and a first survey by the processor through the automated survey platform to a plurality of annotating sources, receiving results of the first survey from the each of the annotating sources for the first survey by the processor; filtering the results of the first survey by the processor to group the individual sentences that were the subject of the first survey into groups that have received like assessments from the annotating sources; providing the filtered survey results and a second survey by the processor to a plurality of annotating sources for the second survey, the plurality of annotating sources for the second survey being crowd-workers connected via their respective networked computers over the internet with the automated survey platform, receiving results of the second survey from the plurality of annotating sources for the second survey by the processor; and automatically generating by the processor paraphrases based on the results of the second survey, wherein the paraphrases are pairs of expression that have a same meaning.