US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on Feb. 3 for "Text classifier for answer identification, background knowledge representation generator and training device therefor, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,654, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Text classifier for answer identification, background knowledge representation generator and training device therefor, and computer program" was invented by Jonghoon Oh (Tokyo), Kentaro Torisawa (Tokyo), Julien Kloetzer (Tokyo) and Ryu Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text classifier 90 for answer identification is capable of highly accurate identification of an answer candidate to a question, by effectively using background knowledge related to the question, in order to extract an answer candidate to the questi...