Patents by Inventor Pamela D. Andrejko

Pamela D. Andrejko 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: 10572547
    Abstract: A primary ingestion pipeline configured for use in natural language processing includes annotators configured for annotating documents. The annotators and documents to be annotated are evaluated. Based on the evaluations, an ingestion risk score is generated for each document. Each ingestion risk score represents a likelihood that an associated document will not successfully be annotated by the annotators. Each ingestion risk score is compared to a set of risk criteria. Based on the comparisons, a determination is made that each document of a first set of documents satisfies the set of risk criteria. A further determination is made, based on the comparisons, that each document of a second set of documents does not satisfy the set of risk criteria. In response to these determinations, the first set of documents is entered into the primary ingestion pipeline and the second set of documents is provided special handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero
  • Patent number: 10423519
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Patent number: 10318591
    Abstract: A primary ingestion pipeline configured for use in natural language processing includes annotators configured for annotating documents. The annotators and documents to be annotated are evaluated. Based on the evaluations, an ingestion risk score is generated for each document. Each ingestion risk score represents a likelihood that an associated document will not successfully be annotated by the annotators. Each ingestion risk score is compared to a set of risk criteria. Based on the comparisons, a determination is made that each document of a first set of documents satisfies the set of risk criteria. A further determination is made, based on the comparisons, that each document of a second set of documents does not satisfy the set of risk criteria. In response to these determinations, the first set of documents is entered into the primary ingestion pipeline and the second set of documents is provided special handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero
  • Publication number: 20190163706
    Abstract: A primary ingestion pipeline configured for use in natural language processing includes annotators configured for annotating documents. The annotators and documents to be annotated are evaluated. Based on the evaluations, an ingestion risk score is generated for each document. Each ingestion risk score represents a likelihood that an associated document will not successfully be annotated by the annotators. Each ingestion risk score is compared to a set of risk criteria. Based on the comparisons, a determination is made that each document of a first set of documents satisfies the set of risk criteria. A further determination is made, based on the comparisons, that each document of a second set of documents does not satisfy the set of risk criteria. In response to these determinations, the first set of documents is entered into the primary ingestion pipeline and the second set of documents is provided special handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero
  • Patent number: 10007594
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Patent number: 9996451
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20180121332
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Patent number: 9606980
    Abstract: Test cases for a text annotator are generated by determining types of inputs to the annotator and analyzing language structures in a corpus to identify sentence types and grammar constructs. An input type can correspond to multiple grammar constructs. Test cases are generated by performing grammar tree transformations on selected fragments from the corpus based on the sentence types and the grammar constructs. Additional test cases are generated by replacing starting phrases in selected fragments with substitute phrases from dictionaries associated with the input types (a dictionary can include a false synonym for an input type for purposes of negative testing). The two generating approaches can be combined, i.e., performing one or more successive (different) grammar tree transformations to yield a sentence which is then subjected to phrase substitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Robert L. Nielsen, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero
  • Publication number: 20170024311
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20170024310
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20160359894
    Abstract: A primary ingestion pipeline configured for use in natural language processing includes annotators configured for annotating documents. The annotators and documents to be annotated are evaluated. Based on the evaluations, an ingestion risk score is generated for each document. Each ingestion risk score represents a likelihood that an associated document will not successfully be annotated by the annotators. Each ingestion risk score is compared to a set of risk criteria. Based on the comparisons, a determination is made that each document of a first set of documents satisfies the set of risk criteria. A further determination is made, based on the comparisons, that each document of a second set of documents does not satisfy the set of risk criteria. In response to these determinations, the first set of documents is entered into the primary ingestion pipeline and the second set of documents is provided special handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero
  • Patent number: 9390374
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes correction information corresponding to an answer generated by a question answer system. The correction information includes a correction to the answer and captured variable information utilized by the question answer system to generate the answer. The information handling system selects input variables based upon the correction analysis and generates a test case that includes the selected input variables and the variable information. In turn, the information handling system tests the question answer system using the generated test case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20160171371
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes correction information corresponding to an answer generated by a question answer system. The correction information includes a correction to the answer and captured variable information utilized by the question answer system to generate the answer. The information handling system selects input variables based upon the correction analysis and generates a test case that includes the selected input variables and the variable information. In turn, the information handling system tests the question answer system using the generated test case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Richard A. Salmon, Charles S. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20160170972
    Abstract: Test cases for a text annotator are generated by determining types of inputs to the annotator and analyzing language structures in a corpus to identify sentence types and grammar constructs. An input type can correspond to multiple grammar constructs. Test cases are generated by performing grammar tree transformations on selected fragments from the corpus based on the sentence types and the grammar constructs. Additional test cases are generated by replacing starting phrases in selected fragments with substitute phrases from dictionaries associated with the input types (a dictionary can include a false synonym for an input type for purposes of negative testing). The two generating approaches can be combined, i.e., performing one or more successive (different) grammar tree transformations to yield a sentence which is then subjected to phrase substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Pamela D. Andrejko, Andrew R. Freed, Cynthia M. Murch, Robert L. Nielsen, Jan M. Nordland, Humberto R. Rivero