US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Discovering new question and answer knowledge from conversation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,589, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Discovering new question and answer knowledge from conversation" was invented by Lijun Mei (Beijing), Qi Cheng Li (Beijing), Xue Han (Beijing), Xin Zhou (Beijing), Zi Ming Huang (Beijing) and Ya Bin Dang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New question and answer (QA) pairs can be automatically discovered from a corpus of data such as online chats and conversations. Newly discovered QA pairs can augment QA database, which can be used by a computer processor or device, e.g., by a chatbot, an automated machine, and/or another. Existing QA ...