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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Tao Li, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vivek Varma Datla, Cambridge, MA (US);
Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method for determining the answer to a query in a document, including: encoding, by an encoder, the query and the document; generating a query-aware context encodings G by a bidirectional attention system using the encoded query and the encoded document; performing a hierarchical self-attention on the query aware document by a hierarchical self-attention system by applying a word to word attention and a word to sentence attention mechanism resulting in a matrix M; and determining the starting word and the ending word of the answer in the document by a span detector based upon the matrix M.