US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 18 for "Generation of query templates for knowledge-graph based question answering system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,113, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generation of query templates for knowledge-graph based question answering system" was invented by Jing Li (Beijing), Jian Wang (Beijing), Jian Min Jiang (Beijing), Zi Ming Huang (Beijing), Zhen Zhang (Beijing) and Wanqing Liu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor obtains a pair including a question and an answer in natural language; determines at least one entity in the question and an entity type of each of the at least one entity consistent with the schema of a knowledge graph (KG); identifies a subset of candidate que...