US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 14 for "Out of domain sentence detection" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,796, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Out of domain sentence detection" was invented by Haode Qi (Cambridge, Mass.), Cheng Qian (Toronto), Ladislav Kunc (Cambridge, Mass.), Saloni Potdar (Arlington, Mass.) and Eric Donald Wayne (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a structure, and a computer system for OOD sentence detection in dialogue systems. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving, for a domain corresponding to a particular topic, one or more on-topic text inputs and one or more off-topic text inputs. The exemplary embodiments may further include ...