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公开(公告)号:US20210004441A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-07
申请号:US16552493
申请日:2019-08-27
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Gopal Sarda
Abstract: The present approaches are generally related to an agent automation framework that is capable of extracting meaning from user utterances, such as requests received by a virtual agent (e.g., a chat agent), and suitably responding to these user utterances. In certain aspects, the agent automation framework includes a NLU framework and an intent-entity model having defined intents and entities that are associated with sample utterances. The NLU framework may include a meaning extraction subsystem designed to generate meaning representations for the sample utterances of the intent-entity model to construct an understanding model, as well as generate meaning representations for a received user utterance to construct an utterance meaning model. The disclosed NLU framework may include a meaning search subsystem that is designed to search the meaning representations of the understanding model to locate matches for meaning representations of the utterance meaning model.
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公开(公告)号:US20190295537A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-26
申请号:US16239218
申请日:2019-01-03
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas SatyaSai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a natural language understanding (NLU) framework and a model, wherein the model includes at least one original meaning representation. The system includes a processor configured to execute instructions of the NLU framework to cause the agent automation system to perform actions including: performing rule-based generalization of the model to generate at least one generalized meaning representation of the model from the at least one original meaning representation of the model; performing rule-based refinement of the model to prune or modify the at least one generalized meaning representation of the model, or the at least one original meaning representation of the model, or a combination thereof; and after performing the rule-based generalization and the rule-based refinement of the model, using the model to extract intents/entities from a received user utterance
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公开(公告)号:US20190295535A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-26
申请号:US16238324
申请日:2019-01-02
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas SatyaSai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a natural language understanding (NLU) framework and a processor configured to execute instructions of the NLU framework to cause the agent automation system to perform actions. These actions comprise: generating an annotated utterance tree of an utterance using a combination of rules-based and machine-learning (ML)-based components, wherein a structure of the annotated utterance tree represents a syntactic structure of the utterance, and wherein nodes of the annotated utterance tree include word vectors that represent semantic meanings of words of the utterance; and using the annotated utterance tree as a basis for intent/entity extraction of the utterance.
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公开(公告)号:US20190294673A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-26
申请号:US16179681
申请日:2018-11-02
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas SatyaSai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a corpus of utterances and a semantic mining framework and a processor configured to execute instructions of the semantic mining framework to cause the agent automation system to perform actions, wherein the actions include: detecting intents within the corpus of utterances; producing intent vectors for the intents within the corpus; calculating distances between the intent vectors; generating meaning clusters of intent vectors based on the distances; detecting stable ranges of cluster radius values for the meaning clusters; and generating an intent/entity model from the meaning clusters and the stable ranges of cluster radius values, wherein the agent automation system is configured to use the intent/entity model to classify intents in received natural language requests.
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公开(公告)号:US12197869B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-14
申请号:US17579007
申请日:2022-01-19
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Jonggun Park , Edwin Sapugay , Phani Bhushan Kumar Nivarthi , Masayo Iida , Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan
IPC: G06F40/30 , G06F40/279 , G06N20/00 , G06F40/205
Abstract: A natural language understanding (NLU) framework includes an a concept system that performs concept matching of user utterances. The concept system generates a concept cluster model from sample utterances of an intent-entity model, and then trains a machine learning (ML) concept model based on the concept cluster model. Once trained, the concept model receives semantic vectors representing potential concepts extracted from utterances, and provides concept indicators to an ensemble scoring system. These concept indicators include indications of which concepts of the concept model that matched to the potential concepts, which intents of the intent-entity model are related to these concepts, and concept-relationship scores indicating a strength and/or uniqueness of the relationship between each concept-intent combination. Based on these concept-related indicators, the ensemble scoring system may determine and apply an ensemble scoring adjustment when determining an ensemble artifact score for each of the artifacts extracted from an utterance.
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公开(公告)号:US20240428001A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-26
申请号:US18828179
申请日:2024-09-09
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas SatyaSai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
IPC: G06F40/30 , G06F40/295 , G06F40/35 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/26
Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a reasoning agent/behavior engine (RA/BE) including a first persona and a current context and a processor configured to execute instructions of the RA/BE to cause the first persona to perform actions comprising: receiving intents/entities of a first user utterance; recognizing a context overlay cue in the intents/entities of the first user utterance, wherein the context overlay cue defines a time period; updating the current context of the RA/BE by overlaying context information from at least one stored episode associated with the time period; and performing at least one action based on the intents/entities of the first user utterance and the current context of the RA/BE.
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公开(公告)号:US12175196B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US17579044
申请日:2022-01-19
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Roshnee Sharma , Edwin Sapugay , Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan , Anil Kumar Madamala , Hari Subramani , Jonggun Park , Srinivas Satyasai Sunkara
Abstract: A natural language understanding (NLU) framework includes a modeling and optimization system that enables enhanced understanding and explainability to the operation of the NLU framework. The NLU framework includes a configuration vector storing settings of various components that may be applied during NLU inference of an utterance, such as which components should be activated or deactivated, as well as which numerical values (e.g., threshold values, coefficients, weight values) that are used by these components during operation. By using this configuration vector to systematically disable and adjust numerical parameters of the components of the NLU framework, and then determining the performance of the NLU framework in these configurations, the modeling and optimization system determines relationships between, as well as the relative importance of, the components of the NLU framework. The modeling and optimization system automatically determines or optimizes configurations for the NLU framework to accommodate various NLU performance and/or resource constraints.
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公开(公告)号:US12086550B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-10
申请号:US17304918
申请日:2021-06-28
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas Satyasai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
IPC: G06F40/30 , G06F40/295 , G06F40/35 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/26
CPC classification number: G06F40/30 , G06F40/295 , G06F40/35 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/26
Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a reasoning agent/behavior engine (RA/BE) including a first persona and a current context and a processor configured to execute instructions of the RA/BE to cause the first persona to perform actions comprising: receiving intents/entities of a first user utterance; recognizing a context overlay cue in the intents/entities of the first user utterance, wherein the context overlay cue defines a time period; updating the current context of the RA/BE by overlaying context information from at least one stored episode associated with the time period; and performing at least one action based on the intents/entities of the first user utterance and the current context of the RA/BE.
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公开(公告)号:US11720756B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US17451405
申请日:2021-10-19
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Gopal Sarda
IPC: G06F40/30 , G06N3/08 , G06F40/205 , G06F40/253 , G06F40/295 , G06F40/211 , G06F40/284 , G06F40/216
CPC classification number: G06F40/30 , G06F40/205 , G06F40/211 , G06F40/216 , G06F40/253 , G06F40/284 , G06F40/295 , G06N3/08
Abstract: The present approaches are generally related to an agent automation framework that is capable of extracting meaning from user utterances, such as requests received by a virtual agent (e.g., a chat agent), and suitably responding to these user utterances. In certain aspects, the agent automation framework includes a NLU framework and an intent-entity model having defined intents and entities that are associated with sample utterances. The NLU framework may include a meaning extraction subsystem designed to generate meaning representations for the sample utterances of the intent-entity model to construct an understanding model, as well as generate meaning representations for a received user utterance to construct an utterance meaning model. The disclosed NLU framework may include a meaning search subsystem that is designed to search the meaning representations of the understanding model to locate matches for meaning representations of the utterance meaning model.
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公开(公告)号:US11681877B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-20
申请号:US17249759
申请日:2021-03-11
Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
Inventor: Edwin Sapugay , Anil Kumar Madamala , Maxim Naboka , Srinivas SatyaSai Sunkara , Lewis Savio Landry Santos , Murali B. Subbarao
IPC: G06F40/30 , G06N20/00 , G10L15/19 , G10L15/22 , G06N5/022 , G06F40/205 , G06F40/211 , G10L15/18 , G10L15/16
CPC classification number: G06F40/30 , G06F40/205 , G06F40/211 , G06N5/022 , G06N20/00 , G10L15/19 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/16 , G10L15/1807 , G10L15/1822 , G10L2015/223 , G10L2015/225
Abstract: An agent automation system implements a virtual agent that is capable of learning new words, or new meanings for known words, based on exchanges between the virtual agent and a user in order to customize the vocabulary of the virtual agent to the needs of the user or users. The agent automation framework has access to a corpus of previous exchanges between the virtual agent and the user, such as one or more chat logs. New words and/or new meanings for known words are identified within the corpus and new word vectors are generated for these new words and/or new meanings for known words and added to refine a word vector distribution model. The refined word vector distribution model is then utilized by the agent automation system to interact with the user.
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