Patents by Inventor Stanley J. Vernier

Stanley J. Vernier 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).

  • IDENTIFYING WORD-SENSES BASED ON LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS
    Publication number: 20160239482
    Abstract: One or more words are received. A set of frequency of occurrence values of the received word(s) within a set of domain tables is determined. A domain table in the set of domain tables is associated to the received word(s), based on the set of frequency of occurrence values meeting a threshold value. A word-sense of the received word(s) is determined based on a corresponding word-sense in the associated domain table and/or corresponding domain dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bishop, Stephen A. Boxwell, Benjamin L. Brumfield, Nirav P. Desai, Stanley J. Vernier
  • Identification and Evaluation of Lexical Answer Type Conditions in a Question to Generate Correct Answers
    Publication number: 20160170989
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager receives a question and selects candidate answers based upon a lexical answer type included in the question. The knowledge manager evaluates the candidate answers against conditions detected in the question and generates condition fulfillment scores accordingly. In turn, the knowledge manager ranks the candidate answers based upon the corresponding condition fulfillment scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bishop, Stephen A. Boxwell, Benjamin L. Brumfield, Nirav P. Desai, Stanley J. Vernier
  • Using Priority Scores for Iterative Precision Reduction in Structured Lookups for Questions
    Publication number: 20160124961
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager matches a question to multiple natural language contexts that each correspond to relations associated with entities in a structured resource. The knowledge manager identifies database queries corresponding to the multiple natural language contexts and assigns priority scores to the database queries based upon their relative specificity. In turn, the knowledge manager invokes one of the database queries based upon the assigned priority scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bishop, Stephen A. Boxwell, Benjamin L. Brumfield, Nirav P. Desai, Stanley J. Vernier
  • Using Synthetic Events to Identify Complex Relation Lookups
    Publication number: 20160124952
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager analyzes a corpus of documents based upon relations corresponding to entities in a structured resource and constructs a natural language context associated with a set of the relations. The knowledge manager maps the natural language context to a database query and, in turn, invokes the database query when the knowledge manager matches a question to the natural language context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bishop, Stephen A. Boxwell, Benjamin L. Brumfield, Nirav P. Desai, Stanley J. Vernier
  • Using Synthetic Events to Identify Complex Relation Lookups
    Publication number: 20160124954
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager analyzes a corpus of documents based upon relations corresponding to entities in a structured resource and constructs a natural language context associated with a set of the relations. The knowledge manager maps the natural language context to a database query and, in turn, invokes the database query when the knowledge manager matches a question to the natural language context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bishop, Stephen A. Boxwell, Benjamin L. Brumfield, Nirav P. Desai, Stanley J. Vernier