US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Automated identification of sentence concreteness and concreteness conversion" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,430, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated identification of sentence concreteness and concreteness conversion" was invented by Xiao Xia Mao (Shanghai), Jialei Ma (Shanghai), Nan Nan Li (Shanghai), Min Huang (Shanghai) and Xiao Feng Ji (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for text corpus concreteness modification are provided. A computer performs natural language processing to determine a concreteness level of a first individual sentence of a text corpus. The computer generates, based on the natural language pro...