US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Retrieval aware question generation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,875, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Retrieval aware question generation" was invented by Saneem Ahmed Chemmengath (Bangalore, India), Vishwajeet Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Jaydeep Sen (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retrieval aware natural language question generation for open domain document retrieval is provided. In one aspect, a system for retrieval aware question generation includes: a question decontextualizer configured to decontextualize a question generated from a context of a target document by adding terms from the context into the question itsel...