公开(公告)号：US10540411B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US14296715

申请日：2014-06-05

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06N3/08 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  G06N5/04 ,  G06F16/33 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to determine that a question received by a deep question answering system is speculative, generate, by one or more predictive algorithms, a set of candidate answers, compute a score for each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers, and return a first candidate answer, of the set of candidate answers, as responsive to the speculative question received by the deep question answering system.

公开(公告)号：US10318566B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-11

申请号：US14495088

申请日：2014-09-24

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06F17/28 ,  G06F17/27 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F16/33 ,  G06F16/35

Abstract: A system and computer implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include collecting a first lot of perspective data for an item. The method may include introducing a variant feature to the item to constitute a modified item. The method may include collecting a second lot of perspective data for the modified item. The method may also include evaluating the first and second lots of perspective data to ascertain a sentiment fluctuation based on information relevant to the variant feature.

公开(公告)号：US20190139058A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16238619

申请日：2019-01-03

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06F17/27 ,  G06F16/2457

Abstract: A processor uses natural language processing to ingest product reviews for a plurality of products. Each of the products embodies a specific form for each of the plurality of product features. The processor analyzes the ingested product reviews for sentiments associated with the specific forms. The processor generates a sentiment score for each product feature based on the analysis. The processor ranks the plurality of product features based on the sentiment scores.

公开(公告)号：US10282903B1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-07

申请号：US15814433

申请日：2017-11-16

Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04W4/02 ,  G02B27/01

Abstract: The program matches a VR environment of a user with an optimal physical location. The method loads a VR program, and detects at least one location-based goal of the user based on a virtual environment of the VR program. The method determines if a current location of the user is an optimal physical location for the at least one location-based goal of the user, based on a plurality of determined criteria associated with the current location and the determined virtual environment associated with the VR program. The method searches for an optimal physical location based on at least one location-based goal of the user and matches the optimal physical location of the user with the at least one location-based goal of the user in the VR program based on the plurality of determined criteria associated with the optimal physical location and the determined virtual environment associated with the VR program.

公开(公告)号：US10068175B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-04

申请号：US14185148

申请日：2014-02-20

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Corville O. Allen ,  Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06N5/04 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G16H10/20

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation comprising receiving, by a deep question answering system, a question not specifying an element of input data, identifying a set of possible values for the element of input data, generating, by the deep question answering system, a respective set of candidate answers for the question: (i) without the element of input data, and (ii) with each possible value in the set of possible values for the element of input data, and returning at least one candidate answer from at least one set of candidate answers as responsive to the question.

公开(公告)号：US10062032B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US14306464

申请日：2014-06-17

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Corville O. Allen ,  Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06N5/04 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G16H10/20

CPC classification number: G06N5/04 ,  G06F16/3329 ,  G16H10/20

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation comprising receiving, by a deep question answering system, a question not specifying an element of input data, identifying a set of possible values for the element of input data, generating, by the deep question answering system, a respective set of candidate answers for the question: (i) without the element of input data, and (ii) with each possible value in the set of possible values for the element of input data, and returning at least one candidate answer from at least one set of candidate answers as responsive to the question.

公开(公告)号：US10055478B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-21

申请号：US14495061

申请日：2014-09-24

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC classification number: G06F16/285 ,  G06F16/24522 ,  G06F16/24575 ,  G06F16/355 ,  G06F16/90332 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06Q30/0201 ,  G06Q30/0282

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include identifying a variant feature of an item having a first set of perspective data. The method may include grouping, based on the variant feature, the first set of perspective data into a first group and a second group. The method may include determining a first set of relevancy scores for the first group and a second set of relevancy scores for the second group. The method may also include establishing, using at least one of the first and second relevancy scores, a second set of perspective data configured to include a subset of the first set of perspective data.

公开(公告)号：US10042913B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-07

申请号：US14671208

申请日：2015-03-27

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/02

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include identifying a variant feature of an item having a first set of perspective data. The method may include grouping, based on the variant feature, the first set of perspective data into a first group and a second group. The method may include determining a first set of relevancy scores for the first group and a second set of relevancy scores for the second group. The method may also include establishing, using at least one of the first and second relevancy scores, a second set of perspective data configured to include a subset of the first set of perspective data.

公开(公告)号：US10013404B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-03

申请号：US14957655

申请日：2015-12-03

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri

IPC: G06F17/22 ,  G06F17/27

CPC classification number: G06F17/2264 ,  G06F17/2705 ,  G06F17/2785

Abstract: A computer system may receive a textual work. The computer system may generate a knowledge graph based on the textual work. The knowledge graph may include nodes representing concepts and edges between the nodes that represent links between the concepts. The computer system may then generate a concept path for a target concept. The computer system may then identify a related background narrative block that contains a related non-target concept. The background narrative block may be a narrative block that is not in the concept path for the target concept. The computer system may then summarize the related background narrative block and output the summary to an output device coupled with the computer system.

公开(公告)号：US09836693B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-05

申请号：US14489124

申请日：2014-09-17

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Adam T. Clark ,  Jeffrey K. Huebert ,  Aspen L. Payton ,  John E. Petri ,  Richard J. Stevens ,  Kathryn L. Whaley

IPC: G06N5/00 ,  G06N5/02 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06N5/04

CPC classification number: G06N5/022 ,  G06F17/3053 ,  G06N5/041 ,  G06N5/043 ,  G06N5/046 ,  G06N99/005

Abstract: A cohort analysis mechanism analyzes cohorts with similar attributes to extrapolate additional knowledge and answer a question in a question answering system. The cohort analysis mechanism identifies cohorts for an entity of the question and extracts relevant data concerning the cohorts. The cohort analysis mechanism aggregates the relevant information for evidence scoring and answer scoring to answer a question posed to the question answering system. The aggregating of the data includes combining and ranking answers from the cohorts, gathering evidence and then answering the question with the gathered evidence.