International Business Machines Corporation

Wing L Leung

Kimberly Greene Starks

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Munish Goyal

Craig M Trim

James Edward Bostick

Jia Chen

John Michael Ganci, Jr

Rashmi Avancha

Howard Neil Anglin

Nduwuisi Emuchay

Bias identification in social network posts. A method performs a semantic comparison of social network posts by a user of a social network to identify a group of social network posts by the user about a specific topical content category. The method determines a respective semantic sense of each social network post of the group. The method also ascertains a semantic sense pattern among social network posts in the group of social network posts about the specific topical content category. The method identifies a bias in at least one social network post of the group of social network posts based on identifying that the respective semantic sense in each of the at least one social network post deviates from the ascertained sematic sense pattern. The method uses the identified bias to predict bias in one or more other social network posts made by the user on the topical content category.

Bias identification in social network posts

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for remediating an instance of a visual notification interfering with an output of an application on a display device of an electronic device. An instance of a visual notification is identified on a display device. The visual notification is determined to be interfering with the output of the application on the display device. User response to the output of the application is monitored. An assessment is made, based on the monitoring, of an effectiveness of the output of the application. It is determined, based on the assessment, that there exists a failure of the effectiveness of the output of the application. A remediation action is performed in response to the determined failure. The remediation action may include removal of the instance of the visual notification, terminating a parent process of the instance of the visual notification, or restarting the electronic device.

Remediating interference of an instance of a visual notification with an output of an application on a display device

A method, system and a computer program product are provided for obscuring web searches by performing cognitive analysis on one or more user search inquiries from a first user to identify a user search behavior profile for the first user, and then generating one or more obfuscating search inquiries consistent with the user behavior search profile for the first user for issuance with the user search inquiries to impair the search engine from accurately characterizing search information related to the first user.

System and method for cognitive agent-based user search behavior modeling

System and method for cognitive agent-based web search obfuscation

A method, system and a computer program product are provided for obscuring web searches by generating or retrieving one or more simulated user search behavior profiles for one or more simulated users, and then generating one or more obfuscating search inquiries consistent with the one or more simulated user search behavior profiles for issuance with the user search inquiries to impair the search engine from accurately characterizing search information related to the first user.

System and method for web search obfuscation using emulated user profiles

A computer-implemented method includes storing, by a computing device, a plurality of dialogues between user devices and an automated support application hosted by the computing device; determining, by the computing device, transitive relationships between the plurality of dialogues; and updating, by the computing device, a question mapping based on the determining the transitive relationships; and applying, the computing device, the updated question mapping to a subsequent support dialogue.

Streamlining support dialogues via transitive relationships between different dialogues

A method, system and a computer program product are provided for obscuring web searches by performing cognitive analysis on the one or more user search inquiries to identify a user search behavior profile and user characterization information for the first user and generating or retrieving one or more simulated user search behavior profiles for one or more simulated users, and then generating one or more obfuscating search inquiries consistent with the one or more simulated user search behavior profiles for issuance with the user search inquiries to impair the search engine from accurately determining the user characterization information for the first user.

System and method for monitoring user searches to obfuscate web searches by using emulated user profiles

Bias identification in social networks posts

A computer-implemented method comprises: monitoring, by a user device, user gesture and user input activity by a user of the user device; detecting, by the user device, that the user has entered a thinking state based on the monitoring; determining, by the user device, subject content based on content displayed on a display of the user device based on the detecting; determining, by the user device, relevant content associated with the subject content; and presenting, by the user device, the relevant content to the user via the display.

Providing suggested content based on user detected gesture

Using a set of characteristics of a posted image, data from a social media platform is searched for a set of related images, a related image having at least a subset of the set of characteristics. For a related image in the set of related images, information corresponding to the related image is processed to extract an additional information that is usable with the posted image. An image-specific knowledgebase associating with the posted image, the knowledgebase including the additional information. In response to a query relative to the posted image, an answer is computed according to a classification of the query using the knowledgebase.

Social media driven cognitive Q and A about images

A method includes sending one or more messages, from a computing device to a server, to cause the server to establish a connection with the computing device, to cause the server to identify a first set of anonymization characteristics, and to cause the server to instantiate a first instance of an access application within a first cloud container using the first set of anonymization characteristics. The method also includes receiving, by the computing device, second data from the server via the connection. The second data is determined based on first data received by the server from a first website using the first instance of the access application.

Systems and methods to anonymize web browsing

A method includes, in response to a request from a computing device, establishing a connection between a server and the computing device. The method additionally includes identifying a first set of anonymization characteristics for a first instance of an access application. The method additionally includes instantiating, within a first cloud container corresponding to the connection, the first instance of the access application using the first set of anonymization characteristics. The method additionally includes retrieving first data using the first instance of the access application. The method additionally includes sending second data to the computing device via the connection. The second data is determined based on the first data.

A computer-implemented method includes storing, by a computing device, a plurality of dialogs between user devices and an automated support application hosted by the computing device; determining, by the computing device, transitive relationships between the plurality of dialogs; and updating, by the computing device, a question mapping based on the determining the transitive relationships; and applying, the computing device, the updated question mapping to a subsequent support dialog.

A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) monitoring, via an image capture device communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, visual focus of a user to identify a focal point of a user on an area of an image of at least one object displayed in a graphical user interface communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The processor(s) derives shape geometry of the object, creating a three-dimensional model. The processor(s) obtains, via the image capture device, a physical gesture by the user. The processor(s) performs a contextual analysis of the physical gesture to determine an application of the physical gesture to a portion of the object depicted in the area of the image. The processor(s) formulates search criteria, based on determining the application and the area. The processor(s) execute a search based on the search criteria and display by a search result.

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