Patents by Inventor Bruce R. Slawson

Bruce R. Slawson 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: 11250332
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for automating the generation of an incorrect answer to a question suitable for a multiple choice exam. An input corpus of human-readable text associated with a subject domain is provided to a question generation system, where it is processed to generate a set of question-answer (QA) pairs. The set of QA pairs is then processed with the corpus of input text to extract a set of input keywords and concepts. A concept dependency graph is then used to perform disambiguation operations on the set of input keywords and concepts, and the reference keywords and concepts it contains, to generate a set of distractor words. The resulting set of distractor words is then processed with the set of QA pairs to generate a set of multiple choice question-answers that include various distractor answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Kristi A. Farinelli, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson
  • Patent number: 10817790
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using a context dependency graph to automate the generation of an incorrect answer to a question suitable for a multiple choice exam. A reference corpus is used to generate a concept dependency graph that contains reference keywords and concepts associated with the subject domain of an input corpus. Relationships between the reference keywords and concepts within the concept dependency graph are identified. Once identified, they are used to process a set of input keywords and concepts extracted from the input corpus, and the reference keywords and concepts, to generate a set of distractor words. The resulting set of distractor words is then processed with a set of QA pairs associated with the input corpus to generate a set of multiple choice question-answers that include various distractor answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Kristi A. Farinelli, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson
  • Patent number: 10783179
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for article summarization. The mechanism analyzes an article to identify entities and relationships within the article. The article is an item of unstructured content. The mechanism performs information augmentation based on the identified entities and relationships using one or more cognitive services to collect augmented information from a corpus of information. The mechanism generates one or more visualization components based on the identified entities and relationships and the augmented information. The mechanism presents a summarization comprising the one or more visualization components to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson, Jagan M. R. Vujjini
  • Publication number: 20170330079
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for automating the generation of an incorrect answer to a question suitable for a multiple choice exam. An input corpus of human-readable text associated with a subject domain is provided to a question generation system, where it is processed to generate a set of question-answer (QA) pairs. The set of QA pairs is then processed with the corpus of input text to extract a set of input keywords and concepts. A concept dependency graph is then used to perform disambiguation operations on the set of input keywords and concepts, and the reference keywords and concepts it contains, to generate a set of distractor words. The resulting set of distractor words is then processed with the set of QA pairs to generate a set of multiple choice question-answers that include various distractor answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Kristi A. Farinelli, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson
  • Publication number: 20170330087
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using a context dependency graph to automate the generation of an incorrect answer to a question suitable for a multiple choice exam. A reference corpus is used to generate a concept dependency graph that contains reference keywords and concepts associated with the subject domain of an input corpus. Relationships between the reference keywords and concepts within the concept dependency graph are identified. Once identified, they are used to process a set of input keywords and concepts extracted from the input corpus, and the reference keywords and concepts, to generate a set of distractor words. The resulting set of distractor words is then processed with a set of QA pairs associated with the input corpus to generate a set of multiple choice question-answers that include various distractor answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Kristi A. Farinelli, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson
  • Publication number: 20170061479
    Abstract: Software that utilizes cognitive services to analyze proposed communications and determine their predicted acceptance by a target audience. The software performs the following operations: (i) receiving a communication from a sender; (ii) determining a demography of a target audience for the communication using natural language processing; (iii) analyzing a set of data sources to determine a predicted amount of acceptance of the communication by the target audience based, at least in part, on the target audience's determined demography; and (iv) identifying a set of adjustments to the communication based, at least in part, on a predicted amount of improvement to the predicted amount of acceptance of the communication by the target audience, wherein the set of adjustments utilizes one or more synonyms to replace one or more words in the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson, Jagan Mohan Rao Vujjini
  • Publication number: 20170063775
    Abstract: Software that utilizes cognitive services to analyze proposed communications and determine their predicted acceptance by a target audience. The software performs the following operations: (i) receiving a communication from a sender; (ii) determining a demography of a target audience for the communication using natural language processing; (iii) analyzing a set of data sources to determine a predicted amount of acceptance of the communication by the target audience based, at least in part, on the target audience's determined demography; and (iv) identifying a set of adjustments to the communication based, at least in part, on a predicted amount of improvement to the predicted amount of acceptance of the communication by the target audience, wherein the set of adjustments utilizes one or more synonyms to replace one or more words in the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson, Jagan Mohan Rao Vujjini
  • Publication number: 20170039275
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for article summarization. The mechanism analyzes an article to identify entities and relationships within the article. The article is an item of unstructured content. The mechanism performs information augmentation based on the identified entities and relationships using one or more cognitive services to collect augmented information from a corpus of information. The mechanism generates one or more visualization components based on the identified entities and relationships and the augmented information. The mechanism presents a summarization comprising the one or more visualization components to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Srijith N. Prabhu, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Bruce R. Slawson, Jagan M.R. Vujjini