US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Domain-specificity prediction for natural language processing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,208, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Domain-specificity prediction for natural language processing" was invented by Diego Matteo Antognini (Ruvigliana, Switzerland) and Francesco Fusco (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer-program product and computer system are provided to determine domain-specificity of a text term. A processor receives a plurality of domain-specific text corpora, wherein each of the plurality of domain-specific text corpora comprises a plurality of text documents of a respective domain. A processor trains a set of subword-unit tokenizers...