226 results about "Syntactic structure" patented technology

Apparatus with accompanying subsystems and methods for developing conversational computer applications. As a user interface, the apparatus allows for a user to initiate the conversation. The apparatus also answers simple and complex questions, understands complex requests, pursues the user for further information when the request is incomplete, and in general provides customer support with a human like conversation while, at the same time, it is capable to interact with a company's proprietary database. As a development tool, the apparatus allows a software developer to implement a conversational system much faster than takes, with current commercial systems to implement basic dialog flows. The apparatus contains three major subsystems: a state transition inference engine, a heuristic answer engine and a parser generator with semantic augmentations. A main process broker controls the flow and the interaction between the different subsystems. The state transition inference engine handles requests that require processing a transaction or retrieving exact information. The heuristic answer engine answers questions that do not require exact answers but enough information to fulfill the user's request. The parser generator processes the user's natural language request, that is, it processes the syntactical structure of the natural language requests and it builds a conceptual structure of the request. After the parser generator processes the user's request, a main process broker feeds the conceptual structure to either the heuristic answer engine or to the state transition inference engine. The interaction between the main process broker and the subsystems creates a conversational environment between the user and the apparatus, while the apparatus uses information from proprietary databases to provide information, or process information, during the course of the conversation. The apparatus is equipped with a programming interface that allows implementers to declare and specify transactions based requests and answers to a multiplicity of questions. The apparatus may be used with a speech recognition interface, in which case, the apparatus improves the recognition results through the context implicitly created by the apparatus.

The invention discloses a component running status acquiring and conversion method of software dynamic evolvement, belonging to the software maintenance technical field, including following procedures that: the realization source codes, the component protocols and the internal operation logics of the new and the old versions of the component are analyzed, the internal structure logic representation models of the component are built respectively; compared with the two logic representation models, the corresponding member variables and syntactic structures are identified, the detailed description of the relativity between the new and the old versions of the component is returned, the component status information which needs to be acquired and converted to the new version is defined; the logic representation model of the new version of the component is modified, the interface method is increased in order to export and store the running status information of the old version; in addition, the interface method is increased in order to import and convert the status information; based on the modified logic representation model of the new version of the component, the source codes of the new version of the component are regenerated. The method of the invention can effectively acquire and convert component running status information and realize the status conversion function of the dynamic evolvement support system.