US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for unsupervised training in text retrieval tasks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,795, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for unsupervised training in text retrieval tasks" was invented by Rui Meng (San Francisco), Yingbo Zhou (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ye Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Semih Yavuz (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ning Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for training a text retrieval model. A system may generate queries associated with provided documents. The queries may be generated in one or more different manners. Examples of query generation may include extracting relevant spans of text fr...