US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Jan. 28 for "Sentence generation using pre-trained model with word importance and focus point" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,847, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sentence generation using pre-trained model with word importance and focus point" was invented by Itsumi Saito (Tokyo), Kyosuke Nishida (Tokyo), Atsushi Otsuka (Tokyo), Kosuke Nishida (Tokyo), Hisako Asano (Tokyo) and Junji Tomita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sentence generation device has: an estimation unit for receiving input of a first sentence and a focus point related to generation of a second sentence to be generated based on the first sentence, and estimating importance of each word constituting the first sentence using a pre-tra...