Patents by Inventor Joseph L. Sharpe, III

Joseph L. Sharpe, III 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: 11188837
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes a set of historical form data corresponding to a set of completed forms. The set of historical form data includes information indicating a historical order at which a set of fields were completed in the set of completed forms. Next, the information handling system determines, based on the set of historical form data, a current order at which to complete a set of incomplete fields included in a current form. In turn, the information handling system displays the current form and a user interface on a display that indicates the current order at which to complete the incomplete fields on the current form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian E. Bissell, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Kristi Farinelli, Stefan Van Der Stockt, Manali Jairam Chanchlani
  • Patent number: 11057231
    Abstract: A prescriptive meeting resource recommendation engine automatically learns participant and resource preferences in the context of given meeting input data using natural language features, and automatically recommends all relevant participants and resources (teleconferences, web meetings, links, etc.) to the meeting creator. The engine uses a feature data store to associate historical persons and historical resources with various natural language features, e.g., chargrams. As the host enters text in an invitation template (such as in the title field), the engine extracts current natural language features and computes current participant scores and current resource scores based on the current natural language features. A “forgetfulness” routine is applied to the feature data store to phase out the influence of stale data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Kristi A. Farinelli, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan Van Der Stockt, Xinyun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11017774
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for classifying spoken audio content with a cognitive audio classifier by applying a set of distorted audio resources through a set of speech-to-text models STTi (STT1 . . . STTn) to get a set of interference coherence scores based on the transcript for each speech-to-text model STTi, thereby generating a measured baseline Mi (M1 . . . Mn) and a practical baseline Pi (P1 . . . Pn) that is associated with a coherence matrix for the audio effects AEj (AE1 . . . AEk) that were used to generate the distorted audio resources, thereby generating training data for use in training a cognitive audio classifier which classifies input spoken audio content to measure a quality of detected vocabulary elements from the spoken audio content under the set of audio distortion effects for each speech-to-text model STTi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kristi A. Farinelli, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan van der Stockt, Xinyun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11003705
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to leverage a taxonomy service to format ground truth data. An artificial intelligence platform processes ground truth data, including identification of one or more applicable taxonomy tags. The identified tags are filtered and applied to the ground truth data, thereby constructing an output string that incorporates the ground truth data together with one or more of the identified tags, effectively transforming the ground truth data. Application of the transformed ground truth data is employed to accurately identify the source and/or meaning of the natural language, and in one embodiment, to produce a physical action or transformation of a physical hardware device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan A. Van Der Stockt, Sihang B. Fang, Sarah Lynch, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Manali J. Chanchlani
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10740544
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system including a processor and memory storing instructions, which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement the method for providing an annotation policy for annotating a corpus including a plurality of electronic documents. The method includes: annotating an occurrence of a first term with a class in an electronic document; recommending a new annotation policy based on at least one annotation for the occurrence of first term; and storing the new annotation policy in a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarah Lynch, Kristi Farinelli, Rahul P. Akolkar, Alexander Block, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan Van Der Stockt
  • Publication number: 20200250550
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes a set of historical form data corresponding to a set of completed forms. The set of historical form data includes information indicating a historical order at which a set of fields were completed in the set of completed forms. Next, the information handling system determines, based on the set of historical form data, a current order at which to complete a set of incomplete fields included in a current form. In turn, the information handling system displays the current form and a user interface on a display that indicates the current order at which to complete the incomplete fields on the current form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Brian E. Bissell, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Kristi Farinelli, Stefan Van Der Stockt, Manali Jairam Chanchlani
  • Publication number: 20200251115
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for classifying spoken audio content with a cognitive audio classifier by applying a set of distorted audio resources through a set of speech-to-text models STTi (STT1 . . . STTn) to get a set of interference coherence scores based on the transcript for each speech-to-text model STTi, thereby generating a measured baseline Mi (M1 . . . Mn) and a practical baseline Pi (P1 . . . Pn) that is associated with a coherence matrix for the audio effects AEj (AE1 . . . AEk) that were used to generate the distorted audio resources, thereby generating training data for use in training a cognitive audio classifier which classifies input spoken audio content to measure a quality of detected vocabulary elements from the spoken audio content under the set of audio distortion effects for each speech-to-text model STTi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kristi A. Farinelli, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan van der Stockt, Xinyun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200076634
    Abstract: A prescriptive meeting resource recommendation engine automatically learns participant and resource preferences in the context of given meeting input data using natural language features, and automatically recommends all relevant participants and resources (teleconferences, web meetings, links, etc.) to the meeting creator. The engine uses a feature data store to associate historical persons and historical resources with various natural language features, e.g., chargrams. As the host enters text in an invitation template (such as in the title field), the engine extracts current natural language features and computes current participant scores and current resource scores based on the current natural language features. A “forgetfulness” routine is applied to the feature data store to phase out the influence of stale data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Kristi A. Farinelli, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan Van Der Stockt, Xinyun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10565189
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to leverage a taxonomy service to format ground truth data. An artificial intelligence platform processes ground truth data, including identification of one or more applicable taxonomy tags. The identified tags are filtered and applied to the ground truth data, thereby constructing an output string that incorporates the ground truth data together with one or more of the identified tags, effectively transforming the ground truth data. Application of the transformed ground truth data is employed to accurately identify the source and/or meaning of the natural language, and in one embodiment, to product a physical action or transformation of a physical hardware device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan A. Van Der Stockt, Sihang B. Fang, Sarah Lynch, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Manali J. Chanchlani
  • Publication number: 20200019599
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system including a processor and memory storing instructions, which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement the method for providing an annotation policy for annotating a corpus including a plurality of electronic documents. The method includes: annotating an occurrence of a first term with a class in an electronic document; recommending a new annotation policy based on at least one annotation for the occurrence of first term; and storing the new annotation policy in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Sarah Lynch, Kristi Farinelli, Rahul P. Akolkar, Alexander Block, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Stefan Van Der Stockt
  • Publication number: 20190266281
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to leverage a taxonomy service to format ground truth data. An artificial intelligence platform processes ground truth data, including identification of one or more applicable taxonomy tags. The identified tags are filtered and applied to the ground truth data, thereby constructing an output string that incorporates the ground truth data together with one or more of the identified tags, effectively transforming the ground truth data. Application of the transformed ground truth data is employed to accurately identify the source and/or meaning of the natural language, and in one embodiment, to product a physical action or transformation of a physical hardware device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan A. Van Der Stockt, Sihang B. Fang, Sarah Lynch, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Manali J. Chanchlani
  • Publication number: 20190266270
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to leverage a taxonomy service to format ground truth data. An artificial intelligence platform processes ground truth data, including identification of one or more applicable taxonomy tags. The identified tags are filtered and applied to the ground truth data, thereby constructing an output string that incorporates the ground truth data together with one or more of the identified tags, effectively transforming the ground truth data. Application of the transformed ground truth data is employed to accurately identify the source and/or meaning of the natural language, and in one embodiment, to product a physical action or transformation of a physical hardware device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan A. Van Der Stockt, Sihang B. Fang, Sarah Lynch, Joseph L. Sharpe, III, Rahul P. Akolkar, Brian E. Bissell, Manali J. Chanchlani
  • 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: 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: 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: 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