US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Determining specificity of text terms in application contexts" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,878, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining specificity of text terms in application contexts" was invented by Francesco Fusco (Zurich) and Diego Matteo Antognini (Ruvigliana, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, a computer program product and a computer system and are provided to enrich downstream learning tasks. A processor stores selected text terms from a corpus of text. A processor determines an initial set of specificity scores for the selected text terms to produce a set of training samples, where each of the training samples c...