ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,440, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Extracting explanations from supporting evidence" was invented by Christopher Malon (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Nitish Joshi (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method trains an inference model on two-hop NLI problems that include a first and second premise and a hypothesis, and further includes generating, by the model using hypothesis reduction, an explanation from an input premise and an input hypothesis, for an input single hop NLI problem. The learning step determines a distribution over extraction starting positions and lengths from within the first premise and ...