US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Quality controlled paraphrase generation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,179, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quality controlled paraphrase generation" was invented by Elron Bandel (Jerusalem), Liat Ein-Dor (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ranit Aharonov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Michal Shmueli-Scheuer (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ilya Shnayderman (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including: receiving, as input, a dataset comprising training pairs (s, t), wherein each training pair comprises (i) a source sentence s and (ii) a target paraphrase t of the source sentences; at a training stage, training a machine learning model on the ...