Patents by Inventor CEARA CHEWNING

CEARA CHEWNING 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).

  • Automatic question detection in natural language
    Patent number: 9721001
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for separating a sentence into a plurality of clauses and applying a set of question detection rules to each of the plurality of clauses. Additionally, the sentence may be automatically designated as a question if the question detection rules indicate that at least one of the plurality of clauses is a question. In one example, at least one of the question detection rules defines an order of a plurality of parts of speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ceara Chewning, Christopher J. Lord, Mark D. Yarvis
  • AUTOMATIC QUESTION DETECTION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
    Publication number: 20150378988
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for separating a sentence into a plurality of clauses and applying a set of question detection rules to each of the plurality of clauses. Additionally, the sentence may be automatically designated as a question if the question detection rules indicate that at least one of the plurality of clauses is a question. In one example, at least one of the question detection rules defines an order of a plurality of parts of speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: CEARA CHEWNING, CHRISTOPHER J. LORD, MARK D. YARVIS