Patents by Inventor Dheeru Dua

Dheeru Dua 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: 11481416
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a Question Answering (QA) system utilizing a trained generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) that generates a bag-of-ngrams (BoN) output representing unlabeled data for performing a natural language processing operation. The QA system obtains a plurality of candidate answers to a natural language question, where each candidate answer comprises one or more ngrams. For each candidate answer, a confidence score is generated based on a comparison of the one or more ngrams in the candidate answer to ngrams in the BoN output of the generator neural network of the GAN. A final answer to the input natural language question is selected from the plurality of candidate answers based on the confidence scores associated with the candidate answers, and is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Bowen Zhou
  • Patent number: 11281976
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural language processing. With these mechanisms, a generator neural network of the GAN is configured to generate a bag-of-ngrams (BoN) output based on a noise vector input and a discriminator neural network of the GAN is configured to receive a BoN input, where the BoN input is either the BoN output from the generator neural network or a BoN input associated with an actual portion of natural language text. The mechanisms further configure the discriminator neural network of the GAN to output an indication of a probability as to whether the input BoN is from the actual portion of natural language text or is the BoN output of the generator neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200019863
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural language processing. With these mechanisms, a generator neural network of the GAN is configured to generate a bag-of-ngrams (BoN) output based on a noise vector input and a discriminator neural network of the GAN is configured to receive a BoN input, where the BoN input is either the BoN output from the generator neural network or a BoN input associated with an actual portion of natural language text. The mechanisms further configure the discriminator neural network of the GAN to output an indication of a probability as to whether the input BoN is from the actual portion of natural language text or is the BoN output of the generator neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Bowen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200019642
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a Question Answering (QA) system utilizing a trained generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) that generates a bag-of-ngrams (BoN) output representing unlabeled data for performing a natural language processing operation. The QA system obtains a plurality of candidate answers to a natural language question, where each candidate answer comprises one or more ngrams. For each candidate answer, a confidence score is generated based on a comparison of the one or more ngrams in the candidate answer to ngrams in the BoN output of the generator neural network of the GAN. A final answer to the input natural language question is selected from the plurality of candidate answers based on the confidence scores associated with the candidate answers, and is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Dheeru Dua, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Bowen Zhou