ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,827, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Specificity ranking of text elements and applications thereof" was invented by Francesco Fusco (Zurich), Cesar Berrospi Ramis (Zurich) and Peter Willem Jan Staar (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ranking a plurality of text elements, each comprising at least one word, by specificity. For each text element to be ranked, such a method includes computing an embedding vector that locates a text element in an embedding space, and selecting a set of text fragments from reference text. Each of these text fragments contains the text element to...