Patents by Inventor Michael L. Stickler

Michael L. Stickler 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: 10606893
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided in which a first knowledge graph, comprising nodes representing entities and edges between nodes indicative of a relationship between the entities, is received. The mechanisms identify a candidate missing edge connecting a node of the first knowledge graph to another node not present in the first knowledge graph and evaluate the candidate missing edge to determine if the candidate missing edge should be added to the first knowledge graph. The mechanisms expand the first knowledge graph to include the candidate missing edge connecting the node to a newly added node that is newly added to the first knowledge graph, to thereby generate an expanded knowledge graph, in response to the evaluation indicating that the candidate missing edge should be added to the first knowledge graph. The mechanisms then perform an operation on the expanded knowledge graph to generate a knowledge output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Patent number: 10490094
    Abstract: A technique for transforming questions for a question answering (QA) system includes clustering received questions by contextual accordance into a question set. A base lexical answer type (LAT) for the question set is determined. LATs of discordant questions in the question set are transformed to the base LAT. Answers for the questions in the question set are aggregated. The aggregated answers are then displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Patent number: 10248689
    Abstract: Candidate answers are generated by a question-answering system in response to a question from a user. One or more generated candidate answers are compared to previous question-answer sets. The previous question-answer sets are indexed and stored in a database which includes a knowledge graph on the previous questions-answer sets. A previous question-answer set is identified as correlating with a first generated candidate answers. The previous question-answer set is identified using relationships of the database. The first generated candidate answer is restructured using the question as a statement which is embedded with the first generated candidate answer. The restructured generated candidate answer which correlates with the previous question-answer set is supplemented with content from the previous question-answer set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20180075368
    Abstract: A method, system and a computer program product are provided for classifying elements in a ground truth training set by iteratively assigning machine-annotated training set elements to clusters which are analyzed to identify a prioritized cluster containing one or more elements which are frequently misclassified and display machine-annotated training set elements associated with the first prioritized cluster along with a warning that the first prioritized cluster contains one or more elements which are frequently misclassified to solicit verification or correction feedback from a human subject matter expert (SME) for inclusion in an accepted training set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20180075359
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided in which a first knowledge graph, comprising nodes representing entities and edges between nodes indicative of a relationship between the entities, is received. The mechanisms identify a candidate missing edge connecting a node of the first knowledge graph to another node not present in the first knowledge graph and evaluate the candidate missing edge to determine if the candidate missing edge should be added to the first knowledge graph. The mechanisms expand the first knowledge graph to include the candidate missing edge connecting the node to a newly added node that is newly added to the first knowledge graph, to thereby generate an expanded knowledge graph, in response to the evaluation indicating that the candidate missing edge should be added to the first knowledge graph. The mechanisms then perform an operation on the expanded knowledge graph to generate a knowledge output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20180068221
    Abstract: A method, system and a computer program product are provided for verifying ground truth data by iteratively clustering machine-annotated training set examples with validation set examples to identify and display one or more prioritized review candidate training set examples grouped with validation set examples meeting a predetermined misclassification criteria in order to solicit verification or correction feedback from a human subject matter expert for inclusion in an accepted training set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20180068222
    Abstract: A method, system and a computer program product are provided for verifying ground truth data by iteratively assigning machine-annotated training set examples to clusters which are prioritized based on verification scores to identify and display one or more prioritized review candidate training set examples grouped in a prioritized cluster in order to solicit verification or correction feedback from a human subject matter expert for inclusion in an accepted training set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20170103069
    Abstract: Candidate answers are generated by a question-answering system in response to a question from a user. One or more generated candidate answers are compared to previous question-answer sets. The previous question-answer sets are indexed and stored in a database which includes a knowledge graph on the previous questions-answer sets. A previous question-answer set is identified as correlating with a first generated candidate answers. The previous question-answer set is identified using relationships of the database. The first generated candidate answer is restructured using the question as a statement which is embedded with the first generated candidate answer. The restructured generated candidate answer which correlates with the previous question-answer set is supplemented with content from the previous question-answer set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler
  • Publication number: 20170092143
    Abstract: A technique for transforming questions for a question answering (QA) system includes clustering received questions by contextual accordance into a question set. A base lexical answer type (LAT) for the question set is determined. LATs of discordant questions in the question set are transformed to the base LAT. Answers for the questions in the question set are aggregated. The aggregated answers are then displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Paul E. BRENNAN, Scott R. CARRIER, Michael L. STICKLER
  • Patent number: 9542447
    Abstract: Candidate answers are generated by a question-answering system in response to a question from a user. One or more generated candidate answers are compared to previous question-answer sets. The previous question-answer sets are indexed and stored in a database which includes a knowledge graph on the previous questions-answer sets. A previous question-answer set is identified as correlating with a first generated candidate answers. The previous question-answer set is identified using relationships of the database. The first generated candidate answer is restructured using the question as a statement which is embedded with the first generated candidate answer. The restructured generated candidate answer which correlates with the previous question-answer set is supplemented with content from the previous question-answer set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Brennan, Scott R. Carrier, Michael L. Stickler