ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,402, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Predicting entity salience" was invented by Benjamin Lynn Bullough (Bedford, Mass.) and Harrison Graham Lundberg (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for predicting entity salience in segments of text, including short segments of text, where salience may refer to the importance or centrality of the entity to the content of the text. The system may use an entity salience model that can encode the context (e.g., the segment of text) into a passage embedding and an entity into an entity embedding. In some cases, the...