ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,018, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Text span prediction based on entity type" was invented by Suman Roy (Bangalore, India) and Srijon Sarkar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning techniques directed to span prediction for textual data are disclosed. As used herein, span prediction is the process of predicting the possible spans of text that can be assigned to a given entity type of a set of predefined entity types. To this end, a machine learning model can be trained to generate values that indicate the predicted probability that a given span of an...