Patents by Inventor Bing Xiang

Bing Xiang 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: 9659560
    Abstract: Software that trains an artificial neural network for generating vector representations for natural language text, by performing the following steps: (i) receiving, by one or more processors, a set of natural language text; (ii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of first metadata for the set of natural language text, where the first metadata is generated using supervised learning method(s); (iii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of second metadata for the set of natural language text, where the second metadata is generated using unsupervised learning method(s); and (iv) training, by one or more processors, an artificial neural network adapted to generate vector representations for natural language text, where the training is based, at least in part, on the received natural language text, the generated set of first metadata, and the generated set of second metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, James J. Fan, Chang Wang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160357855
    Abstract: Software that compares vector representations of question terms and passage terms in question answering systems by performing the following steps: (i) receiving a question; (ii) generating a plurality of vectors including a first vector representation of a term in the question and a second vector representation of a term in a set of natural language text; (iii) generating a similarity score representing an amount of similarity between the first vector representation and the second vector representation; and (iv) determining whether the set of natural language text is relevant to the question based, at least in part, on the generated similarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: James J. Fan, Chang Wang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160358094
    Abstract: Software that compares vector representations of question terms and passage terms in question answering systems by performing the following steps: (i) receiving a question; (ii) generating a plurality of vectors including a first vector representation of a term in the question and a second vector representation of a term in a set of natural language text; (iii) generating a similarity score representing an amount of similarity between the first vector representation and the second vector representation; and (iv) determining whether the set of natural language text is relevant to the question based, at least in part, on the generated similarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: James J. Fan, Chang Wang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160328388
    Abstract: Software that trains an artificial neural network for generating vector representations for natural language text, by performing the following steps: (i) receiving, by one or more processors, a set of natural language text; (ii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of first metadata for the set of natural language text, where the first metadata is generated using supervised learning method(s); (iii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of second metadata for the set of natural language text, where the second metadata is generated using unsupervised learning method(s); and (iv) training, by one or more processors, an artificial neural network adapted to generate vector representations for natural language text, where the training is based, at least in part, on the received natural language text, the generated set of first metadata, and the generated set of second metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, James J. Fan, Chang Wang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160329044
    Abstract: Software that trains an artificial neural network for generating vector representations for natural language text, by performing the following steps: (i) receiving, by one or more processors, a set of natural language text; (ii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of first metadata for the set of natural language text, where the first metadata is generated using supervised learning method(s); (iii) generating, by one or more processors, a set of second metadata for the set of natural language text, where the second metadata is generated using unsupervised learning method(s); and (iv) training, by one or more processors, an artificial neural network adapted to generate vector representations for natural language text, where the training is based, at least in part, on the received natural language text, the generated set of first metadata, and the generated set of second metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, James J. Fan, Chang Wang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160328386
    Abstract: A computer program that uses structured information, such as syntactic and semantic information, as context for representing words and/or phrases as vectors, by performing the following steps: (i) receiving a first set of natural language text and a set of information pertaining to the first set of natural language text, where the information includes metadata and corresponding contextual information indicating a relationship between the metadata and the first set of natural language text; and (ii) generating a first vector representation for the first set of natural language text utilizing the metadata and its corresponding contextual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: JAMES H. CROSS, III, JAMES J. FAN, BING XIANG, BOWEN ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20160328383
    Abstract: A computer program that uses structured information, such as syntactic and semantic information, as context for representing words and/or phrases as vectors, by performing the following steps: (i) receiving a first set of natural language text and a set of information pertaining to the first set of natural language text, where the information includes metadata and corresponding contextual information indicating a relationship between the metadata and the first set of natural language text; and (ii) generating a first vector representation for the first set of natural language text utilizing the metadata and its corresponding contextual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: JAMES H. CROSS, III, JAMES J. FAN, BING XIANG, BOWEN ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20160273139
    Abstract: A method for producing a fluffy temperature regulating warmth retention material and the fluffy temperature regulating warmth retention material produced therefrom are disclosed. The method comprises: selecting a low melting point fiber and an additional fiber; carding to form a single web; spray coating a phase change material along at least part of the length of a surface of the single web; lapping layer by layer of the single web; and performing a heat setting reinforcement to form the warmth retention material. According to the present invention, a fluffy temperature regulating warmth retention material comprising an appropriate ratio of a phase change material may be obtained and the material exhibits a satisfactory temperature regulating effect, and meanwhile, it can maintain, to the full extent, or is close to, the original filling power and soft hand feeling where no phase change material is incorporated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Feng Xu, Guo Tong Zhao, Xiaoshuan Fu, Hong Bing Xiang, Yu Ge
  • Patent number: 8566076
    Abstract: A system and method for speech translation includes a bridge module connected between a first component and a second component. The bridge module includes a transformation model configured to receive an original hypothesis output from a first component. The transformation model has one or more transformation features configured to transform the original hypothesis into a new hypothesis that is more easily translated by the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yonggang Deng, Yuqing Gao, Bing Xiang
  • Patent number: 8494837
    Abstract: Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by calculating confidence scores for particular translations. Translations with high confidence scores are added directly to the corpus and the translations with low confidence scores are presented to human translations for corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuqing Gao, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Patent number: 8352244
    Abstract: Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by calculating confidence scores for particular translations. Translations with high confidence scores are added directly to the corpus and the translations with low confidence scores are presented to human translations for corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuqing Gao, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20120310869
    Abstract: Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by calculating confidence scores for particular translations. Translations with high confidence scores are added directly to the corpus and the translations with low confidence scores are presented to human translations for corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuqing Gao, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20110022381
    Abstract: Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by calculating confidence scores for particular translations. Translations with high confidence scores are added directly to the corpus and the translations with low confidence scores are presented to human translations for corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuqing Gao, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20090299724
    Abstract: A system and method for speech translation includes a bridge module connected between a first component and a second component. The bridge module includes a transformation model configured to receive an original hypothesis output from a first component. The transformation model has one or more transformation features configured to transform the original hypothesis into a new hypothesis that is more easily translated by the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Yonggang Deng, Yuging Gao, Bing Xiang