Patents by Inventor Andrew G. Hicks

Andrew G. Hicks 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: 11586677
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for resolving the intents of user expression. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a user expression, receiving a first resolver having an input class and an output class based on the user expression, determining whether the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, and based on determining that the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, resolving the first resolver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Brendan Bull, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Andrew G. Hicks, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Patent number: 11244116
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automatically bootstrapping a domain-specific vocabulary from at least one source document using one or more computers, by: (a) encoding one or more passages in the source document to identify one or more relevant words therein, wherein the encoding assigns an importance to the relevant words using an attention mechanism (AM) on top of a recurrent neural network (RNN); (b) expanding the relevant words using word embedding distance, ontology information, or multi-part analogies; and (c) mapping the expanded words to concepts for inclusion into the domain-specific vocabulary, wherein concept disambiguation is performed to ensure that incorrect concepts are not included into the domain-specific vocabulary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Paul Lewis Felt, Andrew G. Hicks
  • Patent number: 11176323
    Abstract: A computer system generates a vector space model based on an ontology of concepts. One or more training examples are extracted for one or more concepts of a hierarchical ontology, wherein the one or more training examples for the one or more concepts are based on neighboring concepts in the hierarchical ontology. A plurality of vectors, each including one or more features, are initialized, wherein each vector corresponds to a concept of the one or more concepts. A vector space model is generated by iteratively modifying one or more vectors of the plurality of vectors to optimize a loss function. Natural language processing is performed using the vector space model. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for generating a vector space model in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Paul L. Felt, Andrew G. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20210234911
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for modifying multimedia. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a multimedia and one or more inputs, determining a required amount of modification to the multimedia based on the one or more inputs, generating a literary parse tree based on the multimedia, extracting one or more node features from one or more nodes of the parse tree, determining a node importance of the one or more nodes based on applying a model to the one or more node features, and modifying one or more portions of the multimedia corresponding to the one or more nodes based on the node importance and the required amount of multimedia modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Andrew G. Hicks, BRENDAN Bull, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Patent number: 11068664
    Abstract: A method for generating and presenting a comment excerpt in an online publication based on a comment in a comments section is provided. The method may include determining whether a passage from the comment in the comments section is relevant to a sentence in the online publication, and in response to determining that the passage from the comment is relevant to the sentence in the online publication, extracting the passage from the comment. The method may further include determining the scope of the comment that is associated with the extracted passage, wherein determining the scope of the comment comprises determining a context associated with the extracted passage based on text surrounding the extracted passage. The method may further include, based on the determined scope of the comment, generating the comment excerpt that corresponds to the comment. The method may further include presenting the comment excerpt within the online publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Brendan Bull, Andrew G. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20210182340
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for resolving the intents of user expression. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a user expression, receiving a first resolver having an input class and an output class based on the user expression, determining whether the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, and based on determining that the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, resolving the first resolver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, BRENDAN BULL, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Andrew G. Hicks, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Publication number: 20210064701
    Abstract: A method for generating and presenting a comment excerpt in an online publication based on a comment in a comments section is provided. The method may include determining whether a passage from the comment in the comments section is relevant to a sentence in the online publication, and in response to determining that the passage from the comment is relevant to the sentence in the online publication, extracting the passage from the comment. The method may further include determining the scope of the comment that is associated with the extracted passage, wherein determining the scope of the comment comprises determining a context associated with the extracted passage based on text surrounding the extracted passage. The method may further include, based on the determined scope of the comment, generating the comment excerpt that corresponds to the comment. The method may further include presenting the comment excerpt within the online publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Brendan Bull, Andrew G. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20210064702
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automatically bootstrapping a domain-specific vocabulary from at least one source document using one or more computers, by: (a) encoding one or more passages in the source document to identify one or more relevant words therein, wherein the encoding assigns an importance to the relevant words using an attention mechanism (AM) on top of a recurrent neural network (RNN); (b) expanding the relevant words using word embedding distance, ontology information, or multi-part analogies; and (c) mapping the expanded words to concepts for inclusion into the domain-specific vocabulary, wherein concept disambiguation is performed to ensure that incorrect concepts are not included into the domain-specific vocabulary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Paul Lewis Felt, Andrew G. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20210056168
    Abstract: A computer system generates a vector space model based on an ontology of concepts. One or more training examples are extracted for one or more concepts of a hierarchical ontology, wherein the one or more training examples for the one or more concepts are based on neighboring concepts in the hierarchical ontology. A plurality of vectors, each including one or more features, are initialized, wherein each vector corresponds to a concept of the one or more concepts. A vector space model is generated by iteratively modifying one or more vectors of the plurality of vectors to optimize a loss function. Natural language processing is performed using the vector space model. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for generating a vector space model in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Paul L. Felt, Andrew G. Hicks