Oracle Corporation
Inferring logical clauses for answering complex multi-hop open domain questions

Abstract:

Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to generate automated answers to a complex query (e.g., a query that includes more than one search parameter). A user query comprising a complex query may be received and decomposed into a number of simple queries. A simple query may be executed with a search engine to obtain a set of search results. An answer for the simple query may be obtained from the search results and then substituted for a term of the next simple query identified from the complex query. The next simple query may then be executed to obtain another set of search results. These steps may occur any suitable number of times. An answer for the complex query may be generated based at least in part on the answers one or more of the simple queries.