Embodiments of the invention disclose a symbol reasoning intention recognition method and apparatus, and an electronic device, which can solve the problem that a
machine cannot recognize complex instructions such as intentions, meet the user demand that a user hopes that the
machine can quickly recognize own intentions, and improve user experience. The symbol reasoning intention recognition method comprises the steps that firstly, a target intention of a user is obtained, and the target intention comprises characters, languages, voices or scripts input by the user; secondly, at least two
layers of symbol generation models are utilized, the target intention is decomposed layer by layer,
decomposition is stopped until an undecomposable execution task is obtained, the symbol generation models comprise a natural semantic understanding model or a long and
short term memory model, and the execution task can be recognized and executed by a
machine; and finally, generating an
executable instruction according to the non-decomposable execution task, the
executable instruction being an instruction which can be executed by a machine and generates an effect.