US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 24 for "Combining domain-specific ontologies for language processing" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,244, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Combining domain-specific ontologies for language processing" was invented by Kenneth Lee Clarkson (Madison, N.J.) and Sanjana Sahayaraj (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing a natural language processing task include identifying hypernym/hyponym relations in a depth-wise ontology and identifying synonymy relations in a breadth-wise ontology. The depth-wise ontology and the breadth-wise ontology are combined into a combined ontology using the identified hypernym/hyponym relations and the identif...