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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:
Sep. 08, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jaydeep Sen, Bangalore, IN;

Saneem Ahmed Chemmengath, Bangalore, IN;

Samarth Bharadwaj, Bangalore, IN;

Vishwajeet Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Mustafa Canim, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/90332 (2019.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for self-supervision in table question answering are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a table comprising a plurality of entries, wherein each entry corresponds to a particular column and particular row of the table; identifying one or more of the entries in the table that correspond to a target answer of a natural language query; generating an intermediate representation of the table comprising the rows corresponding to the identified one or more entries, wherein the intermediate representation masks each of the identified one or more entries; and generating a set of natural language question and answer pairs based on the intermediate representation.


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