International Business Machines Corporation

Dimple Bhatia

Armageddon Rhabdizo Brown

Dana Lea Price

Judith Helen Bank

Lisa M Bradley

Yunyao Li

Margaret Zagelow

Keith R Walker

Donna Karen Byron

Eileen Tien Lin

David Deidou Taieb

Mary Swift

Daniele Costante Zilio

John Frederick Hornibrook

Ivan Popivanov

Vandana Mallempati

Jehan S Moghazy

Suparna Sinha Roy

Harold Hotelling Lee

A technique for suggesting patterns to search documents for information of interest includes acquiring a working set of spans for a document set that includes one or more documents. A list of one or more suggested patterns is generated by applying a pattern suggestion algorithm (PSA) to the set of spans for each document in the document set. One or more unique patterns are generated by applying a pattern consolidation algorithm (PCA) to the generated list of suggested patterns. Pattern information for each of the unique patterns is then generated. The pattern information includes a respective first count that corresponds to the number of times each of the unique patterns occurs in the document set.

Suggesting patterns in unstructured documents

Techniques for suggesting patterns in unstructured documents

Techniques are described for text extraction on graphs. In one example, techniques include receiving a graphical representation of data, the graphical representation of data being a format other than a spreadsheet or table; and receiving user input selecting a portion of the graphical representation of data; and generating one or more text analytics rules based on the selected portion. The graphical representation may be a pie chart or a radial sunburst diagram.

Text extraction on graphs

A computer-implemented method for ranking answers of question-answer pairs in ground truth. The computer-implemented method includes annotating, via an annotation tool, the domain dictionary, including, at least one or more of lexicons, glossaries, knowledge base query for ranking the question-answer pairs. The computer-implemented method further includes defining search patterns of the annotated domain dictionary. The computer-implemented method further includes searching a documents corpus or knowledge based query of the domain dictionary for candidate answers of the question-answer pairs, based on the defined search patterns, the candidate are returned based on the search. The computer-implemented method for evaluating the candidate answers with the annotation tool to verify correctness or acceptability of the returned candidate answers based on the search.

Ranking answers in ground truth of a question-answering system

Aspects of the present invention associate an unsent electronic message with a target file that is attached to a first stored electronic message. A command to attach a file to the unsent electronic message is received. A list identifying one or more files attached to one or more stored electronic messages is displayed. The target file is one of the one or more files. An input identifying the target file is received. One of the target file and a file that identifies a location of the target file on a storage device is attached to the unsent electronic message.

Smart attachment to electronic messages

A method and system for collecting statistics on database tables. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a plurality of tables for statistics collection, wherein each table of the plurality of tables are remote tables; examining at least one attribute for each table identified for statistics collection; prioritizing the tables for statistics collection based on the at least one attribute; and collecting statistics on the identified tables in a priority sequence.

Statistics collection for database tables

A remotely located, uniquely identified resource can serve an application utilized by the Web browser. Access to the application can require authentication including a userid and password. A memory for a record associated with the application can be queried. The memory can include a set of userids and passwords indexed against unique application identifiers that are independent upon server identifiers or URLs. Responsive to querying the memory, a match between the application requiring authentication and a unique application identifier in the memory can be determined. A userid and password can be provided without manual input from a user from memory that is associated with the unique application identifier to the remotely located. The uniquely identified resource can use the userid/password as authentication to access the served application.

Autonomous intelligent user identity manager with context recognition capabilities

A system and method of reclaiming lost Internet customers may involve detecting an outage condition associated with a host of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) web site. Customer data can be extracted from packets destined for the host, wherein the packets could be associated with transactions between customers and the web site. The extracted customer data may be stored and, upon detecting a resolution of the outage condition, a customer database can be searched based on the extracted customer data in order to identify customer contact information. A customer reclamation message may then be sent to the customer, wherein the message can incentivize the customer to return to the web site and request completion of the transaction.

Reclaiming lost internet customers

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Dimple Bhatia