US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Automated generation of improved list-type answers in question answering systems" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,677, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated generation of improved list-type answers in question answering systems" was invented by Sara Rosenthal (Spring Valley, N.Y.), Odellia Boni (Giva'at Ela, Israel), Michal Shmueli-Scheuer (Tel-aviv, Israel) and Ora Peled Nakash (Ramat David, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving data comprising: a question provided by a user, a list that constitutes a direct answer to the question, and an introductory text to the list; using a first machine learning model to classify the introduct...