Patents by Inventor Christopher M. Parisien

Christopher M. Parisien has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-domain natural language processing architecture
    Patent number: 10282419
    Abstract: An arrangement and corresponding method are described for multi-domain natural language processing. Multiple parallel domain pipelines are used for processing a natural language input. Each domain pipeline represents a different specific subject domain of related concepts. Each domain pipeline includes a mention module that processes the natural language input using natural language understanding (NLU) to determine a corresponding list of mentions, and an interpretation generator that receives the list of mentions and produces a rank-ordered domain output set of sentence-level interpretation candidates. A global evidence ranker receives the domain output sets from the domain pipelines and produces an overall rank-ordered final output set of sentence-level interpretations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu Hebert, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Christopher M. Parisien, Nicolae Duta, Jerome Tremblay, Amjad Almahairi, Lakshmish Kaushik, Maryse Boisvert
  • Distributed natural language understanding and processing using local data sources
    Patent number: 9171066
    Abstract: An arrangement and corresponding method are described for distributed natural language processing. A set of local data sources is stored on a mobile device. A local natural language understanding (NLU) match module on the mobile device performs natural language processing of a natural language input with respect to the local data sources to determine one or more local interpretation candidates. A local NLU ranking module on the mobile device processes the local interpretation candidates and one or more remote interpretation candidates from a remote NLU server to determine a final output interpretation corresponding to the natural language input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu Hebert, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Christopher M. Parisien
  • Multi-Domain Natural Language Processing Architecture
    Publication number: 20140163959
    Abstract: An arrangement and corresponding method are described for multi-domain natural language processing. Multiple parallel domain pipelines are used for processing a natural language input. Each domain pipeline represents a different specific subject domain of related concepts. Each domain pipeline includes a mention module that processes the natural language input using natural language understanding (NLU) to determine a corresponding list of mentions, and an interpretation generator that receives the list of mentions and produces a rank-ordered domain output set of sentence-level interpretation candidates. A global evidence ranker receives the domain output sets from the domain pipelines and produces an overall rank-ordered final output set of sentence-level interpretations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu Hebert, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Christopher M. Parisien, Nicolae Duta, Jerome Tremblay, Amjad Almahairi, Lakshmish Kaushik, Maryse Boisvert
  • Distributed NLU/NLP
    Publication number: 20140136183
    Abstract: An arrangement and corresponding method are described for distributed natural language processing. A set of local data sources is stored on a mobile device. A local natural language understanding (NLU) match module on the mobile device performs natural language processing of a natural language input with respect to the local data sources to determine one or more local interpretation candidates. A local NLU ranking module on the mobile device processes the local interpretation candidates and one or more remote interpretation candidates from a remote NLU server to determine a final output interpretation corresponding to the natural language input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu Hebert, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Christopher M. Parisien