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.

Fantasy sports contests based on segments of a single sports event. A segment or subevent may be a portion of a single sports event. The users choose a roster of selections to form an fantasy sports contest team roster. Fantasy points are awarded to the user for the real-life performance of the selections on the fantasy sports contest team roster according to rules of the fantasy sports contest. In one embodiment, the user is presented with bonus questions asking for predictions on the outcome of real-life action during a subevent of the a televised competition. Fantasy points may be awarded to users making correct predictions. The bonus questions may supplement fantasy scoring from the users' team rosters, or may be presented as a stand alone interactive sports contest.

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 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.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to providing a dynamic, no-questions-asked, money-back, item-return guarantee for item purchases. For example, a buyer-dealer may access a marketplace platform and search for a particular item to purchase. In some aspects, next to each item for sale, a guarantee acquisition fee may be displayed. This guarantee acquisition fee may indicate the additional cost, to the buyer-dealer, to purchase a no-questions-asked, money-back, item-return guarantee from the marketplace platform. As such, if an item and its respective item-return guarantee are purchased, the buyer-dealer may return the item to the marketplace platform for a full or partial refund of the item purchase price.

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.

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.

Delivering targeted content includes collecting, via at least one tangible processor, user activity data for users during a specified time period. questions asked by the users during the specified time period are extracted from the user activity data, via the at least one tangible processor, and stored in user profiles for the users. The user profiles are clustered, via the at least one tangible processor, based on the questions asked. Targeted content is delivered, via the at least one tangible processor, to a subset of the users based on the clustering.

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.

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.

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.