US Patent Issued to Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) on Aug. 5 for "Grounded dialogue generation with cross-encoding re-ranker, grounding span prediction, and passage dropout" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,285, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Grounded dialogue generation with cross-encoding re-ranker, grounding span prediction, and passage dropout" was invented by Mei Ling Helen Meng (Hong Kong), Xixin Wu (Hong Kong), Kun Li (Hong Kong), Tianhua Zhang (Hong Kong), Liping Tang (Hong Kong), Junan Li (Hong Kong) and Hongyuan Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information-seeking dialogue system can be trained using a pipeline process having stages, or components, of passage retrieval (selecting passages relevant to a query from a corpus or knowledge ...