US Patent Issued to Educational Testing Service on Nov. 11 for "Machine learning-based metaphor detection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,887, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Educational Testing Service (Princeton, N.J.).

"Machine learning-based metaphor detection" was invented by Xianyang Chen (Princeton, N.J.), Chee Wee Leong (Pennington, N.J.), Michael Flor (Lawrence Township, N.J.) and Beata Beigman Klebanov (Hopewell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received that includes a passage of text. The passage of text can be tokenized so that features can be extracted from the resulting tokens. One or more machine learning models can detect one or more metaphors within the passage of text using the extracted features. The at least one machine learning model...