Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a search service based on important sentences. The apparatus for providing a search service based on important sentences includes memory in which at least one program and a previously trained word importance measurement model are recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program may include a word importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of multiple words included in input text in the corresponding input text based on the word importance measurement model and a sentence importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of at least one sentence included in the text based on the measured importance of each of the multiple words.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a search service based on important sentences. The apparatus for providing a search service based on important sentences includes memory in which at least one program and a previously trained word importance measurement model are recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program may include a word importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of multiple words included in input text in the corresponding input text based on the word importance measurement model and a sentence importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of at least one sentence included in the text based on the measured importance of each of the multiple words.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically generating machine reading comprehension training data, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for automatically generating and managing machine reading comprehension training data based on text semantic analysis. The apparatus for automatically generating machine reading comprehension training data according to the present invention includes a domain selection text collection unit configured to collect pieces of text data according to domains and subjects, a paragraph selection unit configured to select a paragraph using the pieces of collected text data and determine whether questions and correct answers are generatable, and a question and correct answer generation unit configured to generate questions and correct answers from the selected paragraph.

Abstract: Provided is a system for creating a news article containing an indirect advertisement, the system including an advertisement database including an advertisement item and an indirect advertisement composed of text matching the advertisement item, an advertisement search unit configured to, when a text-type original news article to be exposed to a webpage is input, search the database for an indirect advertisement candidate matching the original news article and select an advertisement candidate list, an advertisement position determination unit configured to determine a paragraph of the original news article into which a selected advertisement is to be inserted, and an advertisement phrase creation unit configured to create a news article containing an advertisement by inserting the selected advertisement into the paragraph of the original news article and expose the created news article.

Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.

Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.

Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for searching of a similar patent based on element alignment. The method includes: extracting patent elements from an input query patent, extracting search words from the elements, and searching for a similar patent; aligning the elements of the query patent with elements of a similar patent obtained through the search and calculating a matching rate; determining whether any element has been unmatched between the elements of the query patent and the elements of the similar patent and extracting an unmatched element; determining whether an additional search is necessary and causing a user to input a paraphrase suitable to additionally search for the unmatched element when an additional search is necessary; and receiving the paraphrase input by the user, changing the unmatched element for the received paraphrase, and returning to the searching for a similar patent using the changed paraphrase.

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for answering a natural language question which show improved information retrieval performance. The system includes an index unit configured to analyze text of previously stored irregular documents and classify and index the irregular documents according to meanings of sentences or paragraphs, a database configured to receive and store the irregular documents indexed according to the meanings and transmitted from the index unit, a retrieval unit configured to extract an index word by semantically analyzing an input question and search the database for documents related to the extracted index word, and a provision unit configured to generate a correct answer to the question by analyzing the documents searched by the retrieval unit and provide the search results and the correct answer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of providing a shared neural model by a question-answering system, the method including: learning a shared neural model on the basis of initial model learning data; providing a plurality of user terminals with the shared neural model upon completing the learning of the shared neural model; upon the user terminal updating the shared neural model to a personalized neural model, collecting the updated personalized neural model; updating the shared neural model on the basis of the collected personalized neural model; and providing the updated shared neural model to the plurality of user terminals.

Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.

Abstract: An apparatus for amending a language analysis error includes: a main language analyzer, which includes a plurality of language processing modules being sequentially connected to each other, and generates one best main analysis result for each processing module; a subsidiary language analyzer, which includes the plurality of language processing modules, and generates a plurality of subsidiary analysis results for each of the plurality of language processing modules; and an analysis result amender to in response to an error occurring in the main analysis result, acquire a subsidiary analysis result, and transmit the subsidiary analysis result to the main language analyzer.

Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an apparatus for searching information based on Wikipedia's contents comprising: a document converting part extracting fulltext documents, section title documents, info-box documents, category documents and definition statement documents from Wikipedia original documents and generating at least one of Wikipedia documents for questions and answers; a document indexing part analyzing the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, extracting POS-based index terms from the Wikipedia document for questions and answers, and generating a Wikipedia document index for questions and answers; a question analyzing part receiving a natural language question, analyzing a question pattern, an answer pattern and a question focus from the natural language question, and extracting document search keywords; a document searching part performing document search by using the document search keywords from the Wikipedia document index for questions and answers and generating document search res

Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.

Abstract: Provided is a natural language query answering method. The natural language query answering method includes generating a query axiom from an input query, generating answer candidates from the input query, filtering the answer candidates based on a similarity between the query axiom and the answer candidates, reasoning out the answer candidates by using at least one of an inductive reasoning method, a deductive reasoning method, and an abductive reasoning method, calculating reliability of the answer candidates, determining ranks of the answer candidates based on the calculated reliability, and comparing a threshold value with a reliability ratio of reliability of an answer candidate determined as No. 1 rank to reliability of an answer candidate determined as No. 2 rank, readjusting the determined ranks according to a result of the comparison, and detecting a No. 1 rank answer candidate, determined through the readjustment, as a final answer.

Abstract: An apparatus for amending a language analysis error includes: a main language analyzer, which includes a plurality of language processing modules being sequentially connected to each other, and generates one best main analysis result for each processing module; a subsidiary language analyzer, which includes the plurality of language processing modules, and generates a plurality of subsidiary analysis results for each of the plurality of language processing modules; and an analysis result amender to in response to an error occurring in the main analysis result, acquire a subsidiary analysis result, and transmit the subsidiary analysis result to the main language analyzer.

Abstract: Disclosed are a question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis, and a method thereof, the question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis includes a deep natural language question analysis unit configured to create a structure of a semantic frame by analyzing a natural language question that is input, a question-intermediate expression creation unit configured to create a question-intermediate expression of a lexicon level based on the semantic frame, a knowledgebase-specialized query creation unit configured to create a query used to search in knowledgebase that is a subject of search, based on the question-intermediate expression, and a knowledgebase search unit configured to find a correct answer in the knowledgebase that is subject of search based on the query, to provide an accuracy of the correct answer, a confidence of the correct answer and an evidence for the correct answer.

Abstract: A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list.