Patents by Inventor Seamus Ronan McAteer

Seamus Ronan McAteer 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).

  • Automatic corpus expansion using question answering techniques
    Patent number: 10229188
    Abstract: Expanding the corpus of a question answering system. The question answering system is adapted to generate a candidate answer to a query. The candidate answer may be incorporated into the corpus of the question answering system if the candidate answer meets or exceeds a predetermined requirement. By expanding the corpus with material that has been determined to be useful for answering a query, for example, the corpus may be expanded automatically in an accurate and efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Cortis, Urvesh Bhowan, Daniel John McCloskey, Seamus Ronan McAteer
  • Automatic Corpus Expansion using Question Answering Techniques
    Publication number: 20170161363
    Abstract: Expanding the corpus of a question answering system. The question answering system is adapted to generate a candidate answer to a query. The candidate answer may be incorporated into the corpus of the question answering system if the candidate answer meets or exceeds a predetermined requirement. By expanding the corpus with material that has been determined to be useful for answering a query, for example, the corpus may be expanded automatically in an accurate and efficient manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Keith Cortis, Urvesh Bhowan, Daniel John McCloskey, Seamus Ronan McAteer