200 results about "Question asking" patented technology

A method for regulating the asking and motivating the answering of questions via a computer network. The number and complexity of questions asked is controlled by a question regulation method, and the number and quality of answers provided is controlled by an answer evaluation method. The question regulation method permits users to post more numerous or more complex questions based on factors such as viewing of advertising, or provision of marketing information. The answer measurement method may be used to reward those who supply numerous or high-quality answers with premiums, public recognition, or employment opportunities.

In order to handle portions of a recognized sentence having an error, a speaker or user is questioned about contents associated with the portions, and according to a user's answer a result is obtained. A speech recognition unit extracts a speech feature of a speech signal inputted from a user and finds a phoneme nearest to the speech feature to recognize a word. A recognition error determination unit finds a sentence confidence based on a confidence of the recognized word, performs examination of a semantic structure of a recognized sentence, and determines whether or not an error exists in the recognized sentence which is subject to speech recognition according to a predetermined criterion based on both the sentence confidence and a result of examining the semantic structure of the recognized sentence. Further, a meta-dialogue generation unit generates a question asking the user for additional information based on a content of a portion where the error exists and a type of the error.

The present system comprises a number of discrete elements, which when combined provide a solution which has not been attainable in the industry. A database of answer templates provides the answers to all conceivable questions asked on supplier self audit questionnaires. A web portal allows manufacturers access to the above template to allow personalisation of the answers to their own business. A routine to map each questionnaire into this database is provided. In one embodiment, technologists at a central location may perform the mapping of questionnaires. However, customers may directly map their own questionnaires, if desired. A software suite may be provided which manages access, security and general portal administration.

Methods, systems and computer programs for automatic, highly accurate machine comprehension of a plurality of segments of free form unstructured text in a natural language. The system answers a plurality of complex, free-form questions asked in a natural language, based on the totality of input text. The system further uses a multi-dimensional data model to measure the total effects of actions / verbs acting on various unique nouns present in the input text. The system may convert the questions into another multi-dimensional data model and may then compare the two data models in program memory to derive the answers to the posed questions. The system may then automatically detect unknown words and optionally look them up in digital information sources, such as online dictionaries and encyclopedias, to fill in the gaps in knowledge to answer the questions with expert-like reliability.

A query directed password scheme is disclosed that employs attack-resistant questions having answers that generally cannot be correlated with the user using online searching techniques, such as user opinions, trivial facts, or indirect facts. During an enrollment phase, the user is presented with a pool of questions from which the user must select a subset of such questions to answer. Information extraction techniques optionally ensure that the selected questions and answers cannot be correlated with the user. A security weight can optionally be assigned to each selected question. The selected questions should optionally meet predefined criteria for topic distribution. During a verification phase, the user is challenged with a random subset of the questions that the user has previously answered and answers these questions until a level of security for a given application is exceeded as measured by the number of correct questions out of the number of questions asked. Security may be further improved by combining the query directed password protocol with one or more additional factors such as Caller ID that assure that the questions are likely asked only to the registered user.

A knowledge-base system includes a processor, a database, and a matcher for matching questions of clients to answers in the database. The knowledge-base system can be administered by emails sent to the system. Question-answer entries can be added, deleted, and modified through the use of emails and / or other forms. The system can be accessed over a network or directly accessed with an administration computer. Questions and answers are separately indexed in the system to increase the accuracy of generated results. The generated response sent to the client can be modified based on the question asked, the results, and predefined templates. The system can also detect when the system receives a reply from a customer in response to sent results. Once a reply is detected, the email is forwarded to an alternate email address.

A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a network, such as a telephone network with the use of a telephone or the Internet with the use of an Internet access device. Alternatively, the medical advice can be provided to a patient in a stand-alone mode by use of a computer. The invention utilizes a list-based processing method of generating and executing diagnostic scripts. For the purpose of diagnosing a health problem of a patient, medical knowledge is organized into a list of the diseases to be considered. Each disease on the disease list includes a list of symptoms that is checked in a patient. Each symptom on the symptom list is then further described as a response to a list of one or more questions asked of the patient about the symptom. This triply-nested list structure is converted by suitable data structure transformations into a script that is stored. When a patient requires diagnosis, the script is played back as a sequence of questions. The responses of the patient are analyzed and converted into symptoms. The symptoms are accumulated into diseases. Finally the diseases are selected and reported as a diagnosis.

A method and system, executed by a server, is disclosed for receiving questions from users regarding one or more topics and providing answers from a set of experts. Users can direct questions to one or more specific experts, who in turn can answer the questions, refer the questions to other experts, or both. The server automatically organizes and stores questions and answers in various for a dedicated to one or more topics, such as medical treatment for specific health conditions. Responses generated by the experts to the questions asked by the users may, in turn, be reviewed by peer review personnel. The system may be deployed at multiple network sites to provide a question and answer forum to users who visit different sites. Each network site in which the system is deployed may selectively decide whether to post at its network site the responses by experts and / or peer review personnel to questions originating from other network sites. In addition, each network site can selectively decide whether the responses by experts and / or peer review personnel to questions originating at their network site should be permitted to be posted on other network sites. Methods for funding a network site according to the present invention include the provision of advertising banners, receiving subscription payments or fees from user / subscribers for receiving expert opinions, and receiving payments from third party sponsors. Users who access the site may, in turn, receive benefits in exchange for soliciting such expert opinions.

A computer, database, server and network system create, manage and change a user interface displaying a task board comprising a plurality of category columns. Each category column may display a plurality of task cards with each task card displaying task related information that may include client name, subject matter, task name, questions asked, answers issued and visual stimuli regarding task urgency. The task cards or other display areas may comprise plurality of visual cues or other graphics persuading a worker to complete tasks in an order and timeframe acceptable to the system operators and system customers.

The invention provides a question pushing method and system, which are implemented based on pre-established user models, and the user models include at least two of the following models: an interest model, an attribute model, a behavior model and a relation model, wherein the interest model is established by exploiting questions asked by users and answers thereof, the attribute model is established based on user attributes, the behavior model is established by carrying out statistics on user behaviors, and the relation model is established based on relations between different users. The method comprises the following steps: A, carrying out text analysis on a question to be answered so as to extract question features; B, matching with the user models by using the extracted question features, and carrying out sequencing on users according to the matching degree of the question features with the users in each user model and a preset sequencing weight of each user model; and C, pushing the question to be answered to the front M users in the obtained sequence, wherein M is a preset positive integer. Through the method and system disclosed by the invention, the answer providing efficiency and quality of a knowledge questioning and answering system can be improved.

The invention discloses a question matching system and a question matching system in an intelligent interaction system. The question matching method comprises the following steps of performing word segmentation, stop word removal and query expansion on a question asked by a user to avoid interferences of small correlation in a complex sentence to question matching results; according to a preset index file, matching a candidate question associated with the questioning question in a question and answer database, and reducing question matching calculation amount; then, calculating the similarity of the questioning question with the question in a similar question set corresponding to the candidate question, thereby avoiding a condition that same questions are not matched with questions due to a plurality of different asking methods, and improving the question matching results; finally, according to the calculated similarity, outputting an answer corresponding to the question matched with the questioning question according to a preset rule. According to the whole scheme, the accuracy rate of the question matching results in the intelligent interaction system is increased.

An invention is disclosed for providing instant messaging (IM) / chat computer software applications with an automatic secondary “pop-up window” feature that is optionally enabled by a communicating user to cause a separate dialog box window (i.e., a “child window”) to appear for every query or question asked (or other user input received) in a “question and answer” or other IM / chat communication session, in order to individually display each question (or other user input) along with a text entry area for providing an answer or other response.

A system and method for improving student learning includes learning material that is presented to a student and a device that is used to acquire physiological data from the student in real time during a learning session. A cognitive assessment algorithm determines a cognitive state of the student using the physiological data, and a learning action algorithm modifies the presentation of the learning material in response to the student's cognitive state. The learning material can include lectures, questions asked of the student or problems or activities being completed by the student. In one embodiment, the device directly measures the brain activity of the student to determine the student's cognitive state. The cognitive state of the student can include the student's cognitive load, engagement or fatigue.

Non-obtrusive monitoring apparatus for detecting the emotional stress of attempted deception by a standing or seated subject. The apparatus has sensors for measuring parameters of posture, sway, weight distribution, cardiac function, and respiratory function, and outputs computer-readable data for processing and reporting. Also disclosed are: systems for synchronizing output data with information about questions asked of the subject as well as other interrogation stimuli administered to the subject; and systems for analyzing the output data and interrogation stimuli to identify patterns indicating heightened anxiety.

The invention discloses a method of utilizing a multi-layer attention network mechanism to solve video question answering. The method mainly includes the following steps: 1) for a group of videos, utilizing a pre-trained convolutional neural network to obtain frame-level and segment-level video expressions; 2) using a question-word-level attention network mechanism to obtain frame-level and segment-level video expressions for a question word level; 3) using a question-level time attention mechanism to obtain frame-level and segment-level video expressions related to a question; 4) utilizing aquestion-level fusion attention network mechanism to obtain joint video expressions related to the question; and 5) utilizing the obtained joint video expressions to acquire answers to the question asked for the videos. Compared with general video question answering solution, the method utilizes the multi-layer attention mechanism, and can more accurately reflect video and question characteristics, and generate the more conforming answers. Compared with traditional methods, the method achieves a better effect in video question answering.

A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a network, such as a telephone network with the use of a telephone or the Internet with the use of an Internet access device. Alternatively, the medical advice can be provided to a patient in a stand-alone mode by use of a computer. The invention utilizes a list-based processing method of generating and executing diagnostic scripts. For the purpose of diagnosing a health problem of a patient, medical knowledge is organized into a list of the diseases to be considered. Each disease on the disease list includes a list of symptoms that is checked in a patient. Each symptom on the symptom list is then further described as a response to a list of one or more questions asked of the patient about the symptom. This triply-nested list structure is converted by suitable data structure transformations into a script that is stored. When a patient requires diagnosis, the script is played back as a sequence of questions. The responses of the patient are analyzed and converted into symptoms. The symptoms are accumulated into diseases. Finally the diseases are selected and reported as a diagnosis.

A computer assisted system and related method for interacting with an audience by combining questions from a group of questioners, analyzing the questions, and presenting the questions in summary form for answering by a speaker or interviewee. The answers are then delivered to the questioners. The entire interview may be delivered to the questioners, or portions may be selectively delivered to separate questioners based on questions asked by the respective questioner. In one embodiment, questions may be grouped by similar subject matter; groups may be arranged by the number of associated questions or by other priority criteria. In a further embodiment, a representative question may be generated for each group. The representative question may be selected from the group or may be generated from analysis results. In one embodiment, a subscriber based service is provided. Profiles may be developed for the questioners, and targeted advertising may be delivered based on the profiles.

Providing methods and systems to quickly and accurately respond to a natural-language question. The responses to the question can depend on additional information about the user asking the question, and the subject matter of the question the user asked. For example, the system knows that the user understands French, and can supply French answers to the user. Such additional information can improve on relevancy of the responses to the question. More than one responses can be provided to the user to allow the user to pick the more appropriate one. One embodiment uses a computer with a database having many phrases and question formats. The computer identifies phrases in the question based on at least one grammatical rules and phrases in the database. Then the computer links the phrases to categories based on at least one semantic rule, the subject matter of the question, and information about the user, such as previous questions asked by the user. The computer then selects at least two question formats based on at least the scores. After the question formats are selected, the system allows the user to pick at least one of the question formats so as to have an answer to the question generated.

The invention discloses an intelligent dialogue method and apparatus which relate to the technical field of artificial intelligence and are invented for solving the problem that intelligent dialogue can be realized only by enabling a user to clearly ask a question. The method comprises the steps of searching for a preselected dialogue scene, wherein the dialogue scene comprises at least one topic corresponding to the dialogue scene; sending guide information corresponding to the topic to a client, so that the client can perform voice type question-asking according to the guide information; receiving reply information sent by the client; judging whether the reply information is in a preset range of the topic corresponding to the dialogue scene or not; if a judgment result is that the reply information is in the preset range, continuing to send the guide information to the client according to the topic corresponding to the reply information; and if the judgment result is that the reply information is not in the preset range, sending the guide information to the client according to a preset scene skip rule. The method and the apparatus are mainly applied to a man-machine dialogue process.

The invention provides an intelligent question-answering system, which comprises more than one question input module, a question bank, a question matching module, a general answer bank, more than one professional answer bank and a question answering module, wherein the question input module is used for inputting a question which needs to be answered and setting a source identifier for the question, the source identifier comprises at least more than two types of large user information, each large user also comprises small users, the large users are mutually independent, and the small users among different large users are independent; and the question answering module finds a corresponding question answer in the professional answer bank or the general answer bank according to the matching result of the question matching module and the source identifier of the question and feeds a corresponding answer back to an answer requirement party according to the source identifier. Through the subdivision of users and the subdivision of answered questions, the intelligent question-answering system can give targeted accurate answers for different question asking parties.

To handle portions of a recognized sentence having an error, a user is questioned about contents associated with portions. According to a user's answer, a result is obtained. Speech recognition unit extracts a speech feature of a speech signal inputted from user and finds a phoneme nearest to the speech feature to recognize a word. Recognition error determination unit finds a sentence confidence based on a confidence of the recognized word, performs examination of a semantic structure of a recognized sentence, and determines whether or not an error exists in the recognized sentence which is subjected to speech recognition according to predetermined criterion based on both sentence confidence and result of examining semantic structure. Meta-dialogue generation unit generates a question asking user for additional information based on content of a portion where the error exists and a type of the error.

The invention can effectively identify and punish the players who use an external hanging program. The external hanging resistant network game system of the invention comprises an external hanging resistant detector which comprises an external hanging resistant system at server terminal and an external hanging resistant system at client terminal; wherein, the external hanging resistant system at server terminal comprises an external hanging resistant detecting module, an external hanging resistant picture and problem sending module, an answer detecting module, and an answer processing module; the external hanging resistant system at client terminal comprises a picture and question asking receiving module, an external hanging resistant problem displaying module, a player answer sending module. After the players kill a certain number of non-player roles npc, the external hanging resistant system at server terminal sends a picture and a set of answers to the external hanging resistant at client terminal which sends what the player chooses back to the external hanging resistant system at server terminal which makes certain whether the player plays the role in games and deals with such players.

Method and apparatus for computer-aided assessment of organizational process or system. Method and apparatus are adapted to display questions on a computer to an assessor, who then inputs numerical and / or textual inputs relative to the assessor's perception of the process or system. Filtering techniques inhibit entry of unsupported numerical and / or textual inputs which may be untrue and / or exaggerated. Questions used in combination with additional questions provide more accurate assessment of the system or process, where the question combinations already exist in a database. Questions asked may be directed to one or more recognized standards, and duplicative questions from different standards may be omitted. Evaluations of collected information are performed and additional corrective action questions are asked to identify degrees of risk and areas of weakness of the process or system.

A computer based training tool and method that emulates human behavior using a computer-simulated person in a realistic scenario. It provides an interactive experience in detecting deception during interviews and acceptance of statements during interpersonal conversations. The simulated person provides verbal responses in combination with an animated video display reflecting the body language of the simulated person in response to questions asked and during and after responses to the questions. The questions and responses are pre-programmed and interrelated groups of questions and responses are maintained in dynamic tables which are constantly adjusted as a function of questions asked and responses generated. The system provides a critique and numerical score for each training session.

The invention relates to a voice based question-answering system and a method for an interactive voice system. The voice based question-answering system comprises a question-answering data storing unit, a voice recognizing unit, a semantic similarity calculating unit and a classifying unit, wherein the question-answering data storing unit is used for storing questions and the answers corresponding to the questions by an association manner; the voice recognizing unit is used for performing voice recognition for questions asked by a user through a language model; the semantic similarity calculating unit is used for calculating the semantic similarity of the question asked by the user and each question stored in the question-answering data storing unit according to the recognizing result performed by the voice recognizing unit for the questions asked by the user, wherein the semantic similarity is used for describing the similarity of the questions asked by the user and each question stored in the question-answering data storing unit based on the meanings; the classifying unit is used for classifying the questions asked by the user into the questions in the storing unit and the questions outside the storing unit according to the semantic similarity calculated by the semantic similarity calculating unit.

The invention provides a question answering method in teaching. The method comprises the following steps: step 1. a question resource library is established, wherein a certain number of questions and answers are stored in the resource library; step 2. when a user asks a question, key words of the question are split automatically; step 3. questions relevant to the split key words are checked in the question resource library according to the split key words, and the questions / answers are arranged according to the matching degree and are screened to be fed back to the user asking the question; and step 4. whether the question asked by the user is answered is determined by the user self; if the question is not answered, the question is submitted to a system, the system stores the question into a databank to wait for a teacher to resolve the question, and the answer of the teacher is stored into the question resource library. With the adoption of the method, the efficiency in answering questions by a teacher through a network is greatly improved.