International Business Machines Corporation
HANDLING INFERENCES IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM

Abstract:

Technology for using a computing device to interpret entity and relationship occurrences a natural language understanding system that includes the following operations (not necessarily in the following order): (i) receiving a corpus that includes unstructured data and/or structured data; (ii) parsing the corpus to obtain parsed corpus information; (iii) applying artificial intelligence to the parsed corpus information to determine a plurality of logical relationships manifested by the corpus; and (iv) expressing, by machine logic, the plurality of logical relationships as a respectively corresponding plurality of logical rule expressions, with each logical rule expression of the plurality of logical rule expressions expressing the respectively corresponding logical relationship as fact(s) with regard to the corpus.