Patents by Inventor Alan Akbik

Alan Akbik 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: 10783328
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a semi-automatic process for creating a natural language processing resource are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying multiple annotation tasks in connection with natural language processing of input text, and automatically determining, based on analysis of (i) parameters related to the identified annotation tasks and (ii) parameters related to annotation task users, routing instructions for the identified annotation tasks, wherein the routing instructions comprise (a) instructions to route a first sub-set of the identified annotation tasks to non-expert annotation task users and (b) instructions to route a second sub-set of the identified annotation tasks to expert annotation task users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Anbang Xu, Victor K. Ondego, Chenguang Wang
  • Publication number: 20190370333
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a semi-automatic process for creating a natural language processing resource are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying multiple annotation tasks in connection with natural language processing of input text, and automatically determining, based on analysis of (i) parameters related to the identified annotation tasks and (ii) parameters related to annotation task users, routing instructions for the identified annotation tasks, wherein the routing instructions comprise (a) instructions to route a first sub-set of the identified annotation tasks to non-expert annotation task users and (b) instructions to route a second sub-set of the identified annotation tasks to expert annotation task users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Anbang Xu, Victor K. Ondego, Chenguang Wang
  • Patent number: 10042846
    Abstract: One embodiment provides method for constructing a cross-lingual information extraction program, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: constructing a plurality of language-specific representations from text expressed in a plurality of languages by parsing the text of each language using a language-specific semantic parser; mapping the plurality of language-specific representations to a single cross-lingual semantic representation, wherein the cross-lingual semantic representation encompasses the plurality of languages; and constructing the cross-lingual information extraction program based on the cross-lingual semantic representation. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu
  • Patent number: 9898460
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for generating a natural language resource using a parallel corpus, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: receiving, from a parallel corpus, natural language text in a source language and a corresponding translation of the natural language text in a target language, wherein the natural language text in the source language comprises linguistic annotations; projecting the linguistic annotations from the source language natural language text to the target language natural language text; applying one or more filters to remove at least one projected linguistic annotation from the target language natural language text that results in at least one error; selecting at least one target language natural language text having substantially complete linguistic annotations; training a machine learning model using the selected at least one target language natural language text and annotations; and adding, using the trained
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170315986
    Abstract: One embodiment provides method for constructing a cross-lingual information extraction program, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: constructing a plurality of language-specific representations from text expressed in a plurality of languages by parsing the text of each language using a language-specific semantic parser; mapping the plurality of language-specific representations to a single cross-lingual semantic representation, wherein the cross-lingual semantic representation encompasses the plurality of languages; and constructing the cross-lingual information extraction program based on the cross-lingual semantic representation. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170212890
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for generating a natural language resource using a parallel corpus, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: receiving, from a parallel corpus, natural language text in a source language and a corresponding translation of the natural language text in a target language, wherein the natural language text in the source language comprises linguistic annotations; projecting the linguistic annotations from the source language natural language text to the target language natural language text; applying one or more filters to remove at least one projected linguistic annotation from the target language natural language text that results in at least one error; selecting at least one target language natural language text having substantially complete linguistic annotations; training a machine learning model using the selected at least one target language natural language text and annotations; and adding, using the trained
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu