Patents by Inventor Vanessa Lopez

Vanessa Lopez 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: 11966928
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for intelligent application of operational rules to operational data in a computing environment by a processor. One or more operational rules may be extracted and formalized from a knowledge graph, a domain knowledge, or a combination thereof describing one or more operational policies and conditions. The one or more operational rules may be applied to operational data to identify and filter non-compliant operational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Fabrizio Cucci, Theodora Brisimi, Akihiro Kishimoto, Radu Marinescu
  • Publication number: 20240013003
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for unsupervised learning of domain specific knowledge graph from textual data and language generation from knowledge graph via reinforcement learning in a computing system by a processor. Unstructured data is automatically parsed into one or more knowledge graphs based on the unstructured data and a list of candidate relations using a first machine learning model. Text data is generated from the one or more knowledge graphs using a second machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thanh Lam HOANG, Dzung PHAN, Gabriele PICCO, Lam NGUYEN, Marco Luca SBODIO, Vanessa LOPEZ GARCIA
  • Patent number: 11868729
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing and explaining the temporal evolution of policies. The analysis of the temporal evolution of policies includes determining semantically related changes in the text of the corresponding policies over time and across the different versions of the (two or more) policy documents. An explanation of the temporal evolution of policies is provided consisting of human interpretable information relating each change to one or more events and/or contextual data. A next steps policy change is also suggested that includes a set of policy conditions based on potential future changes of similar policies and contextual data and event data. The suggestions are related to the policy relevant to the target cohort or individual. The system adapts machine learned models by receiving user feedback provided on an analysis of the correctness of the temporal evolution of policies, corresponding explanations and suggestions of the next actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Natalia Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Patent number: 11816748
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Natalia Mulligan, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Publication number: 20230306203
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically generating a semantic vector representation of a relation between a specific set of entities in natural language text is provided. The method may include, in response to receiving a text segment comprising a set of entities, automatically parsing the text segment into an abstract meaning representation (AMR) graph comprising nodes representing the set of entities. The method may further include extracting a number of minimum Steiner trees from the AMR graph, and wherein each Steiner tree comprises a minimum amount of edges between the nodes corresponding to a first entity and at least one second entity. The method may further include using a trained graph neural network (GNN) to determine vector embeddings for the minimum Steiner trees. The method may further include aggregating the vector embeddings to generate the semantic vector representation of the relation between the specific set of entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Thanh Lam Hoang, Gabriele Picco, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Publication number: 20230297784
    Abstract: The present inventive concept provides for a method for automated decision modelling from text including obtaining a text corpus including a policy. Terms and syntax are identified within the text corpus related to the policy. Sentence similarities and co-references based on the terms and syntax are identified. Discourse and sentence level semantic parsing is performed based on the terms and the sentence similarities and the co-references using machine learning. A decision model template is generated based on the discourse and semantic parsing, and the decision model template is transformed into an automated decision model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Thanh Lam Hoang, Yufang Hou, Denisa Claudia Moga, Gabriele Picco, Marco Luca Sbodio, Inge Lise Vejsbjerg
  • Publication number: 20230297855
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes receiving an input text and generating a set of virtual triples, which include pairs of named entities from the input text and relation embedding vectors for each of the pairs, from the input text. The method also includes constructing a virtual knowledge graph (KG) with the set of virtual triples and transforming the virtual KG into a relation-cluster KG. Further, the method includes mining logical rules from the relation-cluster KG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thanh Lam Hoang, Gabriele Picco, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Publication number: 20230297851
    Abstract: A first set of an entity is received, where the first set of data includes distinct characteristics of the entity. A second set of data on one or more domains of the entity is received. Using the first and second set of data, a probabilistic knowledge graph for the entity is generated that includes an entity node, a first plurality of nodes, and a second plurality of nodes. The first plurality of nodes are connected to the entity node and represent each of the distinct characteristics. The second plurality of nodes are connected via probabilistic edges, where each of these probabilistic edges has an associated confidence score. This confidence score is determined using the second set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Natalia Mulligan, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Inge Lise Vejsbjerg, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva
  • Patent number: 11726071
    Abstract: A method includes: mapping a boundary of a volume of flowing fluid; partitioning the volume by a computational mesh; finding a contaminant location at a first sensor that is disposed within the volume; obtaining a measured velocity of the flowing fluid within the volume; generating a reversed velocity vector field within the mesh, in response to the measured velocity; time stepping the contaminant location from the first sensor along the reversed velocity vector field until the contaminant location intersects the boundary of the volume; and finding a contaminant source at the intersection of the time stepped contaminant location with the boundary of the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vanessa Lopez-Marrero, Hendrik F. Hamann
  • Publication number: 20230252234
    Abstract: Software that performs the following operations: (i) receiving a set of graph predictions corresponding to an input text, where graph predictions of the set of graph predictions are generated by different respective machine learning models; (ii) blending the graph predictions of the set of graph predictions to generate a plurality of candidate blended graphs, where nodes and edges of the candidate blended graphs have respective selection metric values, generated using a selection metric function, that meet a minimum threshold; and (iii) selecting as an output blended graph a candidate blended graph of the plurality of candidate blended graphs having a highest total combination of selection metric values among the plurality of candidate blended graphs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Thanh Lam Hoang, Gabriele Picco, Yufang Hou, Young-Suk Lee, Lam Minh Nguyen, Dzung Tien Phan, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo
  • Publication number: 20230237399
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for correlating regulatory data in a computing environment by a processor. A rule may be associated with one or more textual paragraphs extracted from a policy document that describes at least a portion of the rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thanh Lam HOANG, Marco Luca SBODIO, Vanessa LOPEZ GARCIA, Natalia MULLIGAN, Yufang HOU, Gabriele PICCO, Inge Lise VEJSBJERG, Joao H BETTENCOURT-SILVA
  • Publication number: 20230177634
    Abstract: In an approach for predicting an effectiveness of a given social program for a given patient at one or more points in time and for providing a score indicating the accuracy of the prediction and an explanation of the prediction, a processor receives a request from a user. Responsive to determining a social program database contains historical data on the given social program, a processor analyzes a set of patients associated with the given social program. A processor predicts the effectiveness of the given social program for the given patient at the one or more points in time using a prediction model trained to predict an effectiveness score and a confidence score. A processor outputs a prediction of the effectiveness of the given social program for the given patient at the one or more points in time to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Natalia Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio, Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva, Gabriele Picco, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Conor Patrick Cullen
  • Publication number: 20230177627
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Natalia Mulligan, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Patent number: 11651010
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate answering questions that involve mathematical computations are provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: transforming, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a natural language query into a first logical representation and extrinsic knowledge into a second logical representation relevant to the natural language query; merging, by the system, the first logical representation and the second logical representation into a third logical representation; and generating, by the system, answers for the natural language query based on processing of the third logical representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth Daly, Charles Arthur Jochim, Akihiro Kishimoto, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Radu Marinescu
  • Publication number: 20230134798
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for generating a reasonable language model learning for text data in a knowledge graph in a computing system by a processor. One or more data sources and one or more triples may be analyzed from a knowledge graph. Training data having one or more candidate labels associated with one or more of the triples may be generated. One or more reasonable language models may be trained based on the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thanh Lam HOANG, Dzung Tien PHAN, Gabriele PICCO, Lam Minh NGUYEN, Vanessa LOPEZ GARCIA
  • Patent number: 11615493
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natalia Mulligan, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Patent number: 11581069
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligent generation of customized questions or questionnaires by a processor. One or more customized questions or questionnaires may be generated according to a user profile, similar profiles of alternative users, one or more historical interactions with the alternative users, one or more goals defined by a domain experts, domain knowledge, historical questions or questionnaires, or a combination thereof using a machine learning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pierpaolo Tommasi, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Sebastian Michael Lehrig, Natalia Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20220414477
    Abstract: In an approach for explaining a theorem proving model, a processor predicts a truth value of a query through a pre-trained theorem proving model, based on the query and one or more facts and rules in a knowledge base. A processor ranks the one or more facts and rules according to contribution, calculated in a pre-defined scoring method, made to the predicted truth value of the query. A processor generates a proof of the predicted truth value, wherein the proof is one or more logical steps that demonstrate the predicted truth value in a natural language. A processor outputs the proof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Gabriele Picco, Thanh Lam Hoang, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Natalia Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20220358130
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for identifying and explaining events, including determining at least one event from a plurality of events, determining at least one outcome defined by an outcome plan, and identifying a relationship between the at least one event and the at least one outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Natalia Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio
  • Publication number: 20220351059
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining a textual knowledge base; filtering the textual knowledge base to obtain a subset of the textual knowledge base, wherein the filtering is based on textual query data; generating reasoning data based on the subset of the textual knowledge base and the textual query data; generating classification data based on the subset of the textual knowledge base, the textual query data, and the reasoning data; and providing label data as output for the textual query data based on the classification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Thanh Lam Hoang, Gabriele Picco, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Natalia Mulligan, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva