US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Automated detection of reasoning in arguments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,378, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated detection of reasoning in arguments" was invented by Avishai Gretz (Ramat Gan, Israel), Assaf Toledo (Ramat Gan, Israel), Edo Cohen-Karlik (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Noam Slonim (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated detection of reasoning in arguments. A training set is generated by: obtaining multiple arguments, each comprising one or more sentences provided as digital text; automatically estimating a probability that each of the arguments includes reasoning, wherein the estimating comprises applying a contextual ...