Patents by Inventor IVAN O'DWYER

IVAN O'DWYER 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).

  • Question answering
    Patent number: 11341176
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining an intent of a query provided to a question answering (QA) system. Embodiments may map a first (e.g., literal) intent of the query to a different, underlying intent. The mapping may be achieved using a map which represents associations between query intents in a first portion of a frequency distribution of known query intents and query intents not in the first portion of the frequency distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ivan O'Dwyer, Simon Peter O'Doherty
  • QUESTION ANSWERING
    Publication number: 20210056128
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining an intent of a query provided to a question answering (QA) system. Embodiments may map a first (e.g., literal) intent of the query to a different, underlying intent. The mapping may be achieved using a map which represents associations between query intents in a first portion of a frequency distribution of known query intents and query intents not in the first portion of the frequency distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: IVAN O'DWYER, Simon Peter O'Doherty