Patents by Inventor Amy E. Veatch

Amy E. Veatch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10067924
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying unchecked criteria within a form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is applied to unstructured data within a target form to identify elements of a form structure. Analytic analysis is then applied to the resulting form structure elements to identify a hierarchical structure and associated element placement. Implicit selections within the form are then identified by applying rules based upon other selections and their orientation to anchor terms to determine the completeness of the form, based upon aggregation of form elements. The form structure elements and the hierarchy metadata are then processed logically reassemble the form's hierarchy in flattened forms for multi-layer, sub-element anaphora resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Lee M. Surprenant, Amy E. Veatch
  • Patent number: 10042837
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying unchecked criteria within a form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is applied to unstructured data within a target form to identify elements of a form structure. Analytic analysis is then applied to the resulting form structure elements to identify a hierarchical structure and associated element placement. Implicit selections within the form are then identified by applying rules based upon other selections and their orientation to anchor terms to determine the completeness of the form, based upon aggregation of form elements. The form structure elements and the hierarchy metadata are then processed logically reassemble the form's hierarchy in flattened forms for multi-layer, sub-element anaphora resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Lee M. Surprenant, Amy E. Veatch
  • Patent number: 9589049
    Abstract: An approach is provided to correct natural language processing (NLP) annotators. The approach operates by receiving a set of supporting text noted by a user in response to the user identifying an error to a user question in a question answering (QA) system. The set of supporting text includes one or more text passages from which a correct answer should have been generated by the QA system. The QA system generates one or more scored candidate corrections with each of the scored candidate corrections is based on the identified error and the set of supporting text. The user can then select one or more of the scored candidate corrections as a confirmed correction to the error. The confirmed corrections are then applied to a corpus that is utilized by the QA system when answering questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Amy E. Veatch
  • Publication number: 20160170952
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying unchecked criteria within a form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is applied to unstructured data within a target form to identify elements of a form structure. Analytic analysis is then applied to the resulting form structure elements to identify a hierarchical structure and associated element placement. Implicit selections within the form are then identified by applying rules based upon other selections and their orientation to anchor terms to determine the completeness of the form, based upon aggregation of form elements. The form structure elements and the hierarchy metadata are then processed logically reassemble the form's hierarchy in flattened forms for multi-layer, sub-element anaphora resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Lee M. Surprenant, Amy E. Veatch
  • Publication number: 20160154892
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying unchecked criteria within a form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is applied to unstructured data within a target form to identify elements of a form structure. Analytic analysis is then applied to the resulting form structure elements to identify a hierarchical structure and associated element placement. Implicit selections within the form are then identified by applying rules based upon other selections and their orientation to anchor terms to determine the completeness of the form, based upon aggregation of form elements. The form structure elements and the hierarchy metadata are then processed logically reassemble the form's hierarchy in flattened forms for multi-layer, sub-element anaphora resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Lee M. Surprenant, Amy E. Veatch