US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 24 for "Semantic parser including a coarse semantic parser and a fine semantic parser" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,172, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Semantic parser including a coarse semantic parser and a fine semantic parser" was invented by Thanh Long Duong (Seabrook, Australia) and Mark Edward Johnson (Castle Cove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving a semantic parser of a dialog system, by breaking the semantic parser into a coarse semantic parser and a fine semantic parser, are described. A method described herein includes accessing an utterance received in a dialog system. The utterance is a text-based natural language expression. The method further i...