US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Query relaxation using external domain knowledge for query answering" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,012, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query relaxation using external domain knowledge for query answering" was invented by Chuan Lei (Cupertino, Calif.), Fatma Ozcan (San Jose, Calif.), Dorian Boris Miller (Saratoga, Calif.), Jeffrey Kreulen (San Jose, Calif.) and Rebecca Geis (Niedersteinbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offline adaptation method of customizing and incorporating external knowledge domain specific knowledge sources into an existing knowledge base (KB) of a cognitive conversation system, includes obtaining an instance-concept frequency from the exis...