Patents by Inventor Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath

Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath 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: 11573994
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for performing cross-document coreference for a corpus of input documents includes determining mentions by parsing the input documents. Each mention includes a first vector for spelling data and a second vector for context data. A hierarchical tree data structure is created by generating several leaf nodes corresponding to respective mentions. Further, for each node, a similarity score is computed based on the first and second vectors of each node. The hierarchical tree is populated iteratively until a root node is created. Each iteration includes merging two nodes that have the highest similarity scores and creating an entity node instead at a hierarchical level that is above the two nodes being merged. Further, each iteration includes computing the similarity score for the entity node. The nodes with the similarity scores above a predetermined value are entities for which coreference has been performed in input documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Robert Glass, Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath, Robert G. Farrell, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Gaetano Rossiello
  • Patent number: 11507828
    Abstract: Training a machine learning model such as a neural network, which can automatically extract a hypernym from unstructured data, is disclosed. A preliminary candidate list of hyponym-hypernym pairs can be parsed from the corpus. A preliminary super-term—sub-term glossary can be generated from the corpus, the preliminary super-term—sub-term glossary containing one or more super-term—sub-term pairs. A super-term—sub-term pair can be filtered from the preliminary super-term—sub-term glossary, responsive to detecting that the super-term—sub-term pair is not a candidate for hyponym-hypernym pair, to generate a final super-term—sub-term glossary. The preliminary candidate list of hyponym-hypernym pairs and the final super-term—sub-term glossary can be combined to generate a final list of hyponym-hypernym pairs. An artificial neural network can be trained using the final list of hyponym-hypernym pairs as a training data set, the artificial neural network trained to identify a hypernym given new text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Robert G. Farrell, Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath, Michael Robert Glass, Md Arafat Sultan
  • Publication number: 20210319054
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for performing cross-document coreference for a corpus of input documents includes determining mentions by parsing the input documents. Each mention includes a first vector for spelling data and a second vector for context data. A hierarchical tree data structure is created by generating several leaf nodes corresponding to respective mentions. Further, for each node, a similarity score is computed based on the first and second vectors of each node. The hierarchical tree is populated iteratively until a root node is created. Each iteration includes merging two nodes that have the highest similarity scores and creating an entity node instead at a hierarchical level that is above the two nodes being merged. Further, each iteration includes computing the similarity score for the entity node. The nodes with the similarity scores above a predetermined value are entities for which coreference has been performed in input documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Robert Glass, Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath, Robert G. Farrell, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Gaetano Rossiello
  • Publication number: 20210125058
    Abstract: Training a machine learning model such as a neural network, which can automatically extract a hypernym from unstructured data, is disclosed. A preliminary candidate list of hyponym-hypernym pairs can be parsed from the corpus. A preliminary super-term-sub-term glossary can be generated from the corpus, the preliminary super-term-sub-term glossary containing one or more super-term-sub-term pairs. A super-term-sub-term pair can be filtered from the preliminary super-term-sub-term glossary, responsive to detecting that the super-term-sub-term pair is not a candidate for hyponym-hypernym pair, to generate a final super-term-sub-term glossary. The preliminary candidate list of hyponym-hypernym pairs and the final super-term-sub-term glossary can be combined to generate a final list of hyponym-hypernym pairs. An artificial neural network can be trained using the final list of hyponym-hypernym pairs as a training data set, the artificial neural network trained to identify a hypernym given new text data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Robert G. Farrell, Nicholas Brady Garvan Monath, Michael Robert Glass, Md Arafat Sultan