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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Christopher F. Ackermann, Fairfax, VA (US);

Charles E. Beller, Baltimore, MD (US);

Stephen A. Boxwell, Columbus, OH (US);

Edward G. Katz, Washington, DC (US);

Kristen M. Summers, Takoma Park, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/30 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24564 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
Abstract

The present invention may receive the question, a plurality of the candidate answers, and a plurality of documents associated with the plurality of candidate answers in the natural language. Then the present invention may tokenize the question, the plurality of the candidate answers, and the plurality of the documents into a corresponding n-gram sequence. The present invention may map n-gram elements from the tokenized question to the n-gram elements of the plurality of the tokenized candidate answers and the plurality of the tokenized documents using the latent token representation technique. The present invention may score the plurality of tokenized candidate answers based on the latent token representation technique. Then, the present invention may determine the precise answer based on the plurality of scored candidate answers.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ackermann, Christopher. (2022). Latent token representations for passage and answer scoring in question answering systems (U.S. Patent No. 11243955). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11243955

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