US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 11 for "Training example generation to create new intents for chatbots" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,938, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Training example generation to create new intents for chatbots" was invented by Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Ana Paula Appel (Sao Paulo), Bruno Silva (Sao Paulo) and Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topic for building a new intent on which to train a chatbot can be received. A database of chatbot training data can be searched for a candidate intent having meta-knowledge similar to the received topic. Utterances associated with the candidate intent can be extracted. The received topi...