International Business Machines Corporation

Maria Chang

Patrick D Watson

Jae-Wook Ahn

Sharad C Sundararajan

Ravindranath Kokku

Achille Belly Fokoue-Nkoutche

Ravi Tejwani

Tengfei Ma

Aldis G Sipolins

Renuka Sindhgatta

Prasenjit Dey

Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya

Rosario A Uceda-Sosa

Chulaka Gunasekara

Kartik Talamadupula

Kshitij P Fadnis

Pavan Kapanipathi Bangalore

Ibrahim Abdelaziz

Michael John Witbrock

Ryan A Musa

Alexander Gray

Bassem Makni

Guilherme Augusto Ferreira Lima

Tejas Indulal Dhamecha

Veronika Thost

Avinash Balakrishnan

Maxwell Crouse

Nicholas Mattei

Shazia Afzal

Sharad Chandra Sundararajan

Siva Sankalp Patel

Marcelo Machado

Provided are techniques for a search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs. A plurality of overlay graphs are generated, where each overlay graph comprises entities represented by nodes and relations represented by edges, and where the entities and the relations map to a subset of entities and relations in a plurality of source knowledge graphs. A search request comprising an entity and a relation is received. An overlay graph is selected from the plurality of overlay graphs based on the entity and the relation. The search request is issued against the overlay graph, where the search request is translated to knowledge graph specific queries, and where the knowledge graph specific queries are issued against the plurality of source knowledge graphs. Search results are received from the plurality of source knowledge graphs. The search results are used to respond to the search request.

Search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs

Techniques that facilitate layered stochastics anonymization of data are provided. In one example, a system includes a machine learning component and an evaluation component. The machine learning component performs a machine learning process for first data associated with one or more features to generate second data indicative of one or more example datasets within a degree of similarity to the first data. The first data and the second data comprise a corresponding data format. The evaluation component evaluates the second data for a particular feature from the one or more features and generates third data indicative of a confidence score for the second data.

Layered stochastic anonymization of data

Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that can facilitate encoding a tree data structure into a vector based on a set of constraints are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a constraint former that can form a set of constraints based on a first tree data structure and a vector encoder that can encode the first tree data structure into a vector based on the set of constraints.

Encoding and decoding tree data structures as vector data structures

One embodiment of the invention provides a method for natural language processing (NLP). The method comprises extracting knowledge outside of text content of a NLP instance by extracting a set of subgraphs from a knowledge graph associated with the text content. The set of subgraphs comprises the knowledge. The method further comprises encoding the knowledge with the text content into a fixed size graph representation by filtering and encoding the set of subgraphs. The method further comprises applying a text embedding algorithm to the text content to generate a fixed size text representation, and classifying the text content based on the fixed size graph representation and the fixed size text representation.

Infusing knowledge into natural language processing tasks using graph structures

Techniques for assessing the proficiency of artificial intelligence agents and users in a given knowledge domain are described. A plurality of proficiency agents can be initialized with a plurality of proficiency scores, by performing a plurality of assessments between pairs of proficiency agents selected from the plurality of proficiency agents. A first client device associated with a first user is matched with a first proficiency agent of the plurality of proficiency agents, based on a first proficiency score associated with the first user and a second proficiency score of the plurality of proficiency scores corresponding to the first proficiency agent. Assessments results of an assessment performed between the first client device and the first proficiency agent are received, and a rating system update function is used to update the first proficiency score and the second proficiency score, based on the assessment results.

Modeling mastery in distributed cognitive systems and storing the results in a ledger

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an environment for developing a conversational tutor, domain content corresponding to a domain of the conversational tutor, wherein the conversational tutor comprises a conversational agent designed to assist students in learning a domain; receiving, at the environment, tutoring content developed by a user, wherein the tutoring content comprises a tutoring script comprising questions to be presented to the student during a tutoring session with the conversational tutor to assist the student in learning the domain; evaluating, within the environment, the tutoring content against the domain content, wherein the evaluating comprises (i) identifying missing tutoring content, (ii) identifying the difficulty of the tutoring content, and (iii) identifying question dependencies; and providing, at the environment, at least one recommendation, identified from results of the evaluation, for adjusting the tutoring content.

Evaluation of tutoring content for conversational tutor

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving text input via a chat interface of a tutor application, identifying, by at least one classifier applied to the text input, a concept in the text input, mapping the concept in the text input to at least one of a visual action and a first visual object, generating, based on a first machine learning (ML) model, a first program code statement corresponding to the at least one of the visual action and the first visual object, and executing the first program code statement to modify a visualization interface of the tutor application based on the text input received via the chat interface.

Enhanced visual dialog system for intelligent tutors

A method and system of providing education content to a student is provided. A topic to be taught to a student is received. A user model of the student is identified. An electronic content model for the topic is determined. One or more presentation templates are identified based on the electronic content model. A concept map is determined based on the one or more presentation templates. A presentation template is selected from the one or more presentation templates. A segment of an educational content of the topic is provided to a user device of the student, based on the selected presentation template.

Adaptive presentation of educational content via templates

Method and apparatus for generating natural language observations using sequence-to-sequence models are provided. The method includes receiving a first electronic document and dynamically generating, without requiring user intervention, a first natural language observation corresponding to a first portion of the first electronic document by processing the first portion of the first electronic document using a first sequence-to-sequence model. A second natural language observation is received for the first portion of the first electronic document, and the generated first natural language observation and the authoritative natural language observation are provided. The method further includes receiving an evaluation of the first natural language observation and the second natural language observation, and refining the first sequence-to-sequence model based on the evaluation of the first natural language observation and second natural language observation.

Distributed system for evaluation and feedback of digital text-based content

A method for authenticating a user is presented. Responsive to a request for access to a computer resource, a computer system prompts the user making the request to access the computer resource to perform a new motion in an environment in which the user is monitored by a sensor system. Detected biometric data in the new motion performed by the user is identified by the computer system. A determination is made as to whether the user performing the new motion is an authenticated user based on comparing the detected biometric data with stored biometric data for a prior motion performed by the authenticated user. The computer system provides access to the computer resource when the user is identified as the authenticated user.

Motion based authentication

A method and system of interactive tutoring is provided. A question is sent to a user device. Upon determining that the response does not correspond to a known correct answer, a concept map is identified and a cost function between the correct answer and the response is determined. Upon determining that the cost function between the correct answer and the response is above a predetermined threshold, the question is identified to be the origin. Otherwise, the response is identified to be the origin. A present academic proficiency of the student is determined. A difficulty boundary based on the academic proficiency of the student is determined. A next question is provided between the origin and the correct answer, based on the determined difficulty boundary of the student.

Providing partial answers to users

Techniques facilitating using a blockchain system that integrates the trustworthiness of the blockchain concept with open scientific research by generating a blockchain of the experiments formed, data collected, analyses performed, and results achieved are provided herein. In an example, the blockchain system can form a blockchain representing a research project, wherein the blockchain comprises a first block of research data and a second block of analysis data representing a log of an analysis performed on the research data. Summary blocks and correction blocks can also be added to the blockchain representing the post analysis of the research results. One or more of the subsequent blocks can be linked to the preceding blocks using information in block headers that can also serve to determine whether modifications to the blocks have been performed.

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Maria Chang