Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Madison

Christopher Michael Madison 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).

  • Dynamic templates for incremental addition of specialized content into a cognitive question answer system
    Patent number: 10902340
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for addition of content to a question answer (QA) system. The method may comprise retrieving, from a template store of the QA system, a template comprising one or more data fields and one or more metadata fields. The method may further comprise populating a passage field with passage information, wherein the passage field is one of the one or more data fields. The method may further comprise populating a training field with training information, wherein the training field is one of the one or more metadata fields. The method may further comprise ingesting, into a corpus of the QA system, a completed template comprising a populated passage field and a populated training field into the corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anita Govindjee, Joseph Max Kaufman, Christopher Michael Madison
  • DYNAMIC TEMPLATES FOR INCREMENTAL ADDITION OF SPECIALIZED CONTENT INTO A COGNITIVE QUESTION ANSWER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170213146
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for addition of content to a question answer (QA) system. The method may comprise retrieving, from a template store of the QA system, a template comprising one or more data fields and one or more metadata fields. The method may further comprise populating a passage field with passage information, wherein the passage field is one of the one or more data fields. The method may further comprise populating a training field with training information, wherein the training field is one of the one or more metadata fields. The method may further comprise ingesting, into a corpus of the QA system, a completed template comprising a populated passage field and a populated training field into the corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Anita Govindjee, Joseph Max Kaufman, Christopher Michael Madison