Patents by Inventor Katharine NIELSON

Katharine NIELSON 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).

  • Publication number: 20140342320
    Abstract: A systems, methods, and products for language learning software that automatically extracts text from corpora using various natural-language processing product features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive a text, extract keywords pedagogically valuable to non-native language learning, assign a difficulty score to the text using various linguistic attributes of the text, generate a list of potential distractors for each keyword in the text to implement in learning activities, and topically tag the text against a taxonomy based on the content. This output is then used in conjunction with a series of learning activity-types designed to meet learners' language skill needs and then used to create dynamic, adaptive activities for them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Voxy, Inc.
    Inventors: Katharine NIELSON, Kasey KIRKHAM, Na'im TYSON, Andrew BREEN
  • Publication number: 20140295384
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and products for language learning that automatically extracts keywords from resources using various natural-language processing product features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive resources having text and then determine a text difficulty score that predicts how difficult the resource is for language learners based on any number of factors, including any number of semantic and syntactic features of the text. Training resources labeled with metadata may be used to train a statistical model for determining difficulty scores of newly received text. Resources may be grouped based on difficulty score, and groups of resources may correspond to language learners' proficiency levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Katharine NIELSON, Kasey KIRKHAM, Na'im TYSON, Andrew BREEN
  • Publication number: 20140297266
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and products for language learning that may extract text from various resources having text, using various natural-language processing features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive a resource, extract keywords pedagogically valuable to non-native language learning and academic exercises. Metadata describing various aspects of resources from which keywords are extracted may be associated with keywords. Metadata describing various aspects of keywords may also be associated with keywords. Extracted keywords may be stored into a keyword store along with any metadata associated with keywords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Voxy, Inc.
    Inventors: Katharine NIELSON, Kasey KIRKHAM, Na'im TYSON, Andrew BREEN