Rating difficulty of questions

DK Byron, SL Estrada, A Pikovsky… - US Patent 9,740,985, 2017‏ - Google Patents
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Automatic evaluation and improvement of ontologies for natural language processing tasks

SR McAteer, DJ McCloskey, M Sogrin - US Patent 9,336,306, 2016‏ - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present application relates generally to an improved data processing
apparatus and method and more specifically to mechanisms for automatic evaluation and …

Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,819,007, 2014‏ - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and computer program product for gener ating answers
to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; …

Evidence diffusion among candidate answers during question answering

DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek, AA Kalyanpur… - US Patent …, 2014‏ - Google Patents
Diffusing evidence among candidate answers during ques tion answering may identify a
relationship between a first candidate answer and a second candidate answer, wherein the …

Sensor fusion model to enhance machine conversational awareness

JJ Andersen, D Erenel, RO Lyle, C Yee - US Patent 10,685,648, 2020‏ - Google Patents
Mechanisms are provided, in a smart speaker system having at least one smart speaker
device comprising an audio capture device, and smart speaker system logic, for process ing …

Medical concept sorting based on machine learning of attribute value differentiation

CO Allen, R DeLima, AE Can, RC Sizemore - US Patent 10,937,551, 2021‏ - Google Patents
Mechanisms are provided for performing entity differentia tion. A cognitive medical system
ingests a corpus of medical content having references to medical entities, and performs …

Drone device security system for protecting a package

LJ Myslinski - US Patent 10,974,829, 2021‏ - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A fact checking system utilizes social networking informa tion and analyzes
and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by …

Cognitive operations based on empirically constructed knowledge graphs

LA Lastras-Montano, V Misra, LB Soares - US Patent 10,664,757, 2020‏ - Google Patents
Mechanisms are provided for performing a cognitive opera tion. The mechanisms receive an
original graph data struc ture comprising nodes and edges between nodes and activity log …

Fact checking method and system

LJ Myslinski - US Patent 8,185,448, 2012‏ - Google Patents
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A fact checking system verifies the correctness of informa
tion and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more …

Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,738,617, 2014‏ - Google Patents
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