Patents by Inventor John William Alexander

John William Alexander 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).

  • Publication number: 20220067276
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for a temporal expression parser in a conversational data-to-text system are described herein. An example method may include receiving user query data comprising an input text string; generating, based at least in part on the input text string, a n-gram set comprising a plurality of n-gram elements; traversing each n-gram element in the n-gram set to generate a parse tree list comprising one or more parse trees based on a grammar template associated with the input text string; and generating, based at least in part on a last parse tree of the parse tree list, one or more semantic frames indicating a temporal expression associated with the input text string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Rodrigo Gomes De Oliveira, John William ALEXANDER
  • Publication number: 20220067038
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for providing a conversational data-to-text system are described herein. An example method may include receiving a first natural language query from a client device; generating a first analytic operation instruction associated with a multi-dimensional dataset based at least in part on the first natural language query; determining a first multi-dimensional data object based at least in part on the first analytic operation instruction and the multi-dimensional dataset; generating a first natural language response to the first natural language query based at least in part on the first multi-dimensional data object; and transmitting the first natural language response to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kapila Anuruddha Ponnamperuma Arachchi, Rodrigo Gomes De Oliveira, John William Alexander, Daniel da Silva De Paiva, Neil Stuart Burnett