Method and apparatus for establishing a hierarchical intent system

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the stored program logic comprising:
• logic, executed by the processor, for obtaining a user intent corpus;
• logic, executed by the processor, for identifying a plurality of text statements in the user intent corpus;
• logic, executed by the processor, for generating sentence vectors corresponding to each of the plurality of text statements;
• logic, executed by the processor, for obtaining a plurality of clusters by clustering a plurality of the sentence vectors;
• logic, executed by the processor, for identifying text statement sets corresponding to each of the plurality of clusters;
• and
• logic, executed by the processor, for establishing a hierarchical intent system utilizing the identified text statement sets.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

• obtaining a user intent corpus;
• identifying a plurality of text statements in the user intent corpus;
• generating sentence vectors corresponding to each of the plurality of text statements;
• obtaining a plurality of clusters by clustering a plurality of the sentence vectors;
• identifying text statement sets corresponding to each of the plurality of clusters;
• and
• establishing a hierarchical intent system utilizing the identified text statement sets.