Patents by Inventor Michael Louis WICK

Michael Louis WICK 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: 20200387743
    Abstract: A first set and a second set are identified as operands for a set operation of a similarity analysis task iteration. Using respective minimum hash information arrays and contributor count arrays of the two sets, a minimum hash information array and contributor count array of a derived set resulting from the set operation is generated. An entry in the contributor count array of the derived set indicates the number of child sets of the derived set that meet a criterion with respect to a corresponding entry in the minimum hash information array of the derived set. The generated minimum hash information array and the contributor count array are stored as part of input for a subsequent iteration. After a termination criterion of the task is met, output of the task is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Swetasudha Panda
  • Publication number: 20200372035
    Abstract: A Bayesian test of demographic parity for learning to rank may be applied to determine ranking modifications. A fairness control system receiving a ranking of items may apply Bayes factors to determine a likelihood of bias for the ranking. These Bayes factors may include a factor for determining bias in each item and a factor for determining bias in the ranking of the items. An indicator of bias may be generated using the applied Bayes factors and the fairness control system may modify the ranking if the determines likelihood of bias satisfies modification criteria for the ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Michael Louis Wick, Swetasudha Panda
  • Publication number: 20200372290
    Abstract: A Bayesian test of demographic parity for learning to rank may be applied to determine ranking modifications. A fairness control system receiving a ranking of items may apply Bayes factors to determine a likelihood of bias for the ranking. These Bayes factors may include a factor for determining bias in each item and a factor for determining bias in the ranking of the items. An indicator of bias may be generated using the applied Bayes factors and the fairness control system may modify the ranking if the determines likelihood of bias satisfies modification criteria for the ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Pallika Haridas Kanani, Michael Louis Wick, Swetasudha Panda, Haniyeh Mahmoudian
  • Publication number: 20200372406
    Abstract: Fairness of a trained classifier may be ensured by generating a data set for training, the data set generated using input data points of a feature space including multiple dimensions and according to different parameters including an amount of label bias, a control for discrepancy between rarity of features, and an amount of selection bias. Unlabeled data points of the input data comprising unobserved ground truths are labeled according to the amount of label bias and the input data sampled according to the amount of selection bias and the control for the discrepancy between the rarity of features. The classifier is then trained using the sampled and labeled data points as well as additional unlabeled data points. The trained classifier is then usable to determine unbiased classifications of one or more labels for one or more other data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Swetasudha Panda, Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan
  • Publication number: 20200226318
    Abstract: A scalable hierarchical coreference method that employs a homomorphic compression scheme that supports addition and partial subtraction to more efficiently represent the data and the evolving intermediate results of probabilistic inference. The method may encode the features underlying conditional random field models of coreference resolution so that cosine similarities can be efficiently computed. The method may be applied to compressing features and intermediate inference results for conditional random fields. The method may allow compressed representations to be added and subtracted in a way that preserves the cosine similarities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Stephen Joseph Green
  • Patent number: 10606931
    Abstract: A scalable hierarchical coreference method that employs a homomorphic compression scheme that supports addition and partial subtraction to more efficiently represent the data and the evolving intermediate results of probabilistic inference. The method may encode the features underlying conditional random field models of coreference resolution so that cosine similarities can be efficiently computed. The method may be applied to compressing features and intermediate inference results for conditional random fields. The method may allow compressed representations to be added and subtracted in a way that preserves the cosine similarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Stephen Joseph Green
  • Publication number: 20190354574
    Abstract: A scalable hierarchical coreference method that employs a homomorphic compression scheme that supports addition and partial subtraction to more efficiently represent the data and the evolving intermediate results of probabilistic inference. The method may encode the features underlying conditional random field models of coreference resolution so that cosine similarities can be efficiently computed. The method may be applied to compressing features and intermediate inference results for conditional random fields. The method may allow compressed representations to be added and subtracted in a way that preserves the cosine similarities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan, Stephen Joseph Green
  • Patent number: 10410139
    Abstract: A system that performs natural language processing receives a text corpus that includes a plurality of documents and receives a knowledge base. The system generates a set of document n-grams from the text corpus and considers all n-grams as candidate mentions. The system, for each candidate mention, queries the knowledge base and in response retrieves results. From the results retrieved by the queries, the system generates a search space and generates a joint model from the search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Pallika Haridas Kanani, Michael Louis Wick, Katherine Silverstein
  • Patent number: 9779085
    Abstract: A natural language processing (“NLP”) manager is provided that manages NLP model training. An unlabeled corpus of multilingual documents is provided that span a plurality of target languages. A multilingual embedding is trained on the corpus of multilingual documents as input training data, the multilingual embedding being generalized across the target languages by modifying the input training data and/or transforming multilingual dictionaries into constraints in an underlying optimization problem. An NLP model is trained on training data for a first language of the target languages, using word embeddings of the trained multilingual embedding as features. The trained NLP model is applied for data from a second of the target languages, the first and second languages being different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Louis Wick, Pallika Haridas Kanani, Adam Craig Pocock
  • Publication number: 20170193396
    Abstract: A system that performs natural language processing receives a text corpus that includes a plurality of documents and receives a knowledge base. The system generates a set of document n-grams from the text corpus and considers all n-grams as candidate mentions. The system, for each candidate mention, queries the knowledge base and in response retrieves results. From the results retrieved by the queries, the system generates a search space and generates a joint model from the search space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Pallika Haridas KANANI, Michael Louis WICK, Katherine SILVERSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20160350288
    Abstract: A natural language processing (“NLP”) manager is provided that manages NLP model training. An unlabeled corpus of multilingual documents is provided that span a plurality of target languages. A multilingual embedding is trained on the corpus of multilingual documents as input training data, the multilingual embedding being generalized across the target languages by modifying the input training data and/or transforming multilingual dictionaries into constraints in an underlying optimization problem. An NLP model is trained on training data for a first language of the target languages, using word embeddings of the trained multilingual embedding as features. The trained NLP model is applied for data from a second of the target languages, the first and second languages being different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Louis WICK, Pallika Haridas KANANI, Adam Craig POCOCK
  • Publication number: 20160321358
    Abstract: A system is provided that extracts attribute values. The system receives data including unstructured text from a data store. The system further tokenizes the unstructured text into tokens, where a token is a character of the unstructured text. The system further annotates the tokens with attribute labels, where an attribute label for a token is determined, in least in part, based on a word that the token originates from within the unstructured text. The system further groups the tokens into text segments based on the attribute labels, where a set of tokens that are annotated with an identical attribute label are grouped into a text segment, and where the text segments define attribute values. The system further stores the attribute labels and the attribute values within the data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Pallika Haridas KANANI, Michael Louis WICK, Adam Craig POCOCK