Patents by Inventor Yufang HOU
Yufang HOU 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).
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Patent number: 11947926Abstract: In an approach for discourse-level text optimization, a processor receives an initial text in a first language. A processor applies one or more operators to modify the initial text. A processor evaluates the modified text using a scoring function. A processor determines whether a score generated from the scoring function on the modified text is above a predefined threshold. In response to determining the score is above the predefined threshold, a processor outputs the modified text.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Yufang Hou
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Patent number: 11914632Abstract: Embodiments for providing an intelligent media data service in a computing environment by a processor. One or more sections of media data are identified and annotated (e.g., tagged) for a user based on a degree of relevancy between a user profile and the media data, wherein the media data include media classification, topic detection, speaker detection and noise detection. The one or more sections of media data are selected for the user based on the tagging of the or more sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Pierpaolo Tommasi, Marco Luca Sbodio, Yufang Hou
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Patent number: 11887130Abstract: A method for automatically detecting inappropriate content on a computing application is provided. The method may include, in response to detecting an attempt to post content on the computing application, parsing the content to identify parts of the content. The method may further include determining whether the parts of the content comprises inappropriate content by applying algorithms to the parts of the content based on information associated with one or more computing applications and by predicting whether potential viewers of the one or more parts of the content view the one or more parts as inappropriate. The method may further include, in response to determining that the one or more parts of the content includes inappropriate content based on the applied algorithms and the potential viewers, generating and displaying feedback and providing suggestions for editing the inappropriate content on the attempted post.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Debasis Ganguly, Martin Gleize, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Francesca Bonin, Yufang Hou
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Publication number: 20230334081Abstract: Embodiments for providing an intelligent media data service in a computing environment by a processor. One or more sections of media data are identified and annotated (e.g., tagged) for a user based on a degree of relevancy between a user profile and the media data, wherein the media data include media classification, topic detection, speaker detection and noise detection. The one or more sections of media data are selected for the user based on the tagging of the or more sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Pierpaolo TOMMASI, Marco Luca SBODIO, Yufang HOU
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Publication number: 20230297784Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Thanh Lam Hoang, Yufang Hou, Denisa Claudia Moga, Gabriele Picco, Marco Luca Sbodio, Inge Lise Vejsbjerg
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Publication number: 20230281340Abstract: Embodiments for providing enhanced data anonymity protection by a processor are disclosed. Selected portions of data intended for distribution in a communication channel or currently distributed on one or more data sources having a potential for revealing identify of a user in a public domain (and/or private domain) may be identified, where an assessment is provided indicating a current status of an amount of data currently exposing the identity of the user in the public domain. The selected portions of the data may be transformed into anonymous data by applying a one or more data corrective operations to prevent further exposure of the identity of the user into the public domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Martin GLEIZE, Pierpaolo TOMMASI, Yufang HOU, Debasis GANGULY
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Publication number: 20230252234Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Thanh Lam Hoang, Gabriele Picco, Yufang Hou, Young-Suk Lee, Lam Minh Nguyen, Dzung Tien Phan, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo
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Publication number: 20230252054Abstract: Embodiments for analysis and summarization of current knowledge of data by a processor. A topic of a knowledge domain may be identified and extracted from one or more one or more data sources. A list of candidate subtopics, summaries, and a plurality of related data associated with the topic may be generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yufang HOU, Debasis GANGULY, Martin GLEIZE, Stephane DEPARIS
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Publication number: 20230237399Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Thanh Lam HOANG, Marco Luca SBODIO, Vanessa LOPEZ GARCIA, Natalia MULLIGAN, Yufang HOU, Gabriele PICCO, Inge Lise VEJSBJERG, Joao H BETTENCOURT-SILVA
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Publication number: 20230195427Abstract: One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to facilitating code development by predicting one or more code attributes and/or code portions for use in a project code to be written. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise a dialogue component that generates a query based on a natural language request comprising a code-related attribute, and a prediction component that predicts another attribute or a code portion to satisfy the request. In an embodiment, an input dataset employed to support the influence mapping can comprise time-stamped tuple data comprising a state, an action and a reward. The code-related attribute can at least partially define a project code, of code to be written.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Beat Buesser, Yufang Hou, Akihiro Kishimoto, Radu Marinescu
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Patent number: 11645476Abstract: A computer generates a formal planning domain description. The computer receives a first text-based description of a domain in an AI environment. The domain includes an action and an associated attribute, and the description is written in natural language. The computer receives the first text-based description of the domain and extracts a first set of domain actions and associated action attributes. The computer receives audio-visual elements depicting the domain, generates a second text-based description, and extracts a second set of domain actions and associated action attributes. The computer constructs finite state machines corresponding to the extracted actions and attributes. The computer converts the FSMs into a symbolic model, written in a formal planning language, that describes the domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mattia Chiari, Yufang Hou, Hiroshi Kajino, Akihiro Kishimoto, Radu Marinescu
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Publication number: 20230064112Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an issue definition of an issue with software; generating, by the computing device and based on the issue definition, an urgency score for the issue, the urgency score representing an urgency of resolving the issue; generating, by the computing device and based on the issue definition, a complexity score for the issue, the complexity score representing a complexity of the issue; identifying, by the computing device using natural language processing and based on the urgency score and the complexity score, an assignee to address the issue, the assignee being a team member of a plurality of team members; recommending, by the computing device, to a user the assignee for assignment to address the issue; and tracking, by the computing device, progress of resolving the issue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Jun Wang, Bei Chen, Yufang Hou, Akihiro Kishimoto, Si Er Han, Jing Xu, Ji Hui Yang, Jing James Xu, Xue Ying Zhang
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Patent number: 11586816Abstract: Tailoring textual content to a target audience by receiving an input of a user, wherein the input of the user includes textual data, identifying a target audience of the textual data based at least in part on the input of the user, determining a style of the target audience, wherein the style is a variety of language used by the target audience, generating a modification recommendation to the textual data of the input of the user based at least in part on the textual data and the determined style.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yufang Hou, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Martin Gleize, Debasis Ganguly
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Publication number: 20230008218Abstract: In an approach for building an automated customer support system, a processor receives a set of sentences extracted from a natural language conversation occurring between an IT support system and a user. A processor extracts an initial state and a goal state from the set of sentences using a Natural Language Classifier. A processor extracts one or more actions from the set of sentences. A processor creates a formal planning model. A processor determines the one or more formal actions are not complete using a first machine learning model. A processor completes the one or more formal actions with one or more missing parts. A processor produces an executable plan using a planner. A processor implements one or more executable scripts according to a sequence of the one or more formal actions of the executable plan using a plan executor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Radu Marinescu, Akihiro Kishimoto, Yufang Hou
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Publication number: 20220398379Abstract: Tailoring textual content to a target audience by receiving an input of a user, wherein the input of the user includes textual data, identifying a target audience of the textual data based at least in part on the input of the user, determining a style of the target audience, wherein the style is a variety of language used by the target audience, generating a modification recommendation to the textual data of the input of the user based at least in part on the textual data and the determined style.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Yufang Hou, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Martin Gleize, Debasis Ganguly
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Publication number: 20220366074Abstract: Submitting a data space to a provider can risk exposing sensitive information in the data space. To protect the sensitive information, the data space can be analyzed to identify features that are relevant to sensitive information and features that are relevant to a goal task. Features that are relevant to the sensitive information but are not relevant to the goal task can be pruned from the data space, and the pruned data space can be transmitted to the provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Debasis Ganguly, Martin Gleize, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Yufang Hou
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Patent number: 11481425Abstract: Systems and methods for creating presentation slides. A slide title is received and portions of source documents relevant to the title are identified based on a dense vector information retrieval machine learning process. An abstractive summary of the portions is generated based on a long form question answering machine learning process. A first presentation slide is created with the abstractive summary and the title. The first presentation slide is presented to an operator and an input indicating one of accepting or rejection the abstractive summary is received. Based on the input that indicating rejecting the abstractive summary, the abstractive summary is removed from the presentation slide and negative training feedback for the abstractive summary is provided to at least one of the dense vector information retrieval machine learning process or the long form question answering machine learning process.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dakuo Wang, Yufang Hou, Xin Ru Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Chuang Gan, Edward Sun
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Publication number: 20220269713Abstract: Systems and methods for creating presentation slides. A slide title is received and portions of source documents relevant to the title are identified based on a dense vector information retrieval machine learning process. An abstractive summary of the portions is generated based on a long form question answering machine learning process. A first presentation slide is created with the abstractive summary and the title. The first presentation slide is presented to an operator and an input indicating one of accepting or rejection the abstractive summary is received. Based on the input that indicating rejecting the abstractive summary, the abstractive summary is removed from the presentation slide and negative training feedback for the abstractive summary is provided to at least one of the dense vector information retrieval machine learning process or the long form question answering machine learning process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Dakuo WANG, Yufang HOU, Xin Ru WANG, Yunfeng ZHANG, Chuang GAN, Edward SUN
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Publication number: 20220207392Abstract: A system receives messaging, video and/or audio input streams including dialogue spoken by users at a group meeting. From these inputs, the system obtains single or multiple interaction records including natural language text memorializing content spoken by each speaker at a meeting, analyzes the content, and identifies single or multiple action item tasks in the interaction records. The system then generates summaries indicating the action item tasks for the users. From the dialogue content, the system further detects whether each action item is addressed, and whether the action item for a user has a solution, or not. The system further detects whether one action item is a precondition for resolving another action item by the user or in conjunction with another user. Using a pre-configured template, the system generates action item summaries, any associated solution, and any relationship or precondition between action items and presents the summary to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Yufang Hou, Akihiro Kishimoto, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen
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Publication number: 20220198324Abstract: Techniques regarding generating and/or training one or more symbolic models are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a training component that can train a symbolic model via active machine learning. The symbolic model can characterize a formal planning language for a planning domain as a plurality of digital image sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Masataro Asai, Yufang Hou, Hiroshi Kajino, Radu Marinescu