Patents by Inventor Amir Menczel

Amir Menczel 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).

  • Learning sentiment composition from sentiment lexicons
    Patent number: 11308419
    Abstract: A method including: generating, from a text corpus, a lexicon of unigrams and bigrams comprising an embedding for each of said unigrams and bigrams; training a machine learning classifier on a training set comprising a subset of said lexicon, wherein each of said unigrams and bigrams in said subset has a sentiment label; applying said machine learning classifier to said lexicon, to (i) predict a sentiment of each of said unigrams and bigrams, and (ii) update said lexicon with the predicted sentiments; and performing statistical analysis on said updated lexicon, to extract one or more sentiment composition lexicons, wherein each of said one or more sentiment composition lexicons is associated with a sentiment composition class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ranit Aharonov, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Arthur Jochim, Amir Menczel, Noam Slonim, Orith Toledo-Ronen
  • Automated entity disambiguation
    Patent number: 10810375
    Abstract: A method comprising: operating at least one hardware processor for: receiving, as input, at least one named entity, modifying said named entity based on a plurality of modification rules to generate a set of candidate named entities corresponding to said named entity, and identifying, for at least one candidate named entity in said set of candidate named entities, an article in a knowledge base of articles, wherein a title of said article matches said candidate named entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yosi Mass, Amir Menczel, Dafna Sheinwald, Ilya Shnayderman, Noam Slonim
  • LEARNING SENTIMENT COMPOSITION FROM SENTIMENT LEXICONS
    Publication number: 20200065716
    Abstract: A method including: generating, from a text corpus, a lexicon of unigrams and bigrams comprising an embedding for each of said unigrams and bigrams; training a machine learning classifier on a training set comprising a subset of said lexicon, wherein each of said unigrams and bigrams in said subset has a sentiment label; applying said machine learning classifier to said lexicon, to (i) predict a sentiment of each of said unigrams and bigrams, and (ii) update said lexicon with the predicted sentiments; and performing statistical analysis on said updated lexicon, to extract one or more sentiment composition lexicons, wherein each of said one or more sentiment composition lexicons is associated with a sentiment composition class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ranit Aharonov, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Arthur Jochim, Amir Menczel, Noam Slonim, Orith Toledo-Ronen
  • AUTOMATED ENTITY DISAMBIGUATION
    Publication number: 20200012719
    Abstract: A method comprising: operating at least one hardware processor for: receiving, as input, at least one named entity, modifying said named entity based on a plurality of modification rules to generate a set of candidate named entities corresponding to said named entity, and identifying, for at least one candidate named entity in said set of candidate named entities, an article in a knowledge base of articles, wherein a title of said article matches said candidate named entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yosi Mass, Amir Menczel, Dafna Sheinwald, Ilya Shnayderman, Noam Slonim