US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 9 for "Rule-based techniques for extraction of question and answer pairs from data" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,043, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Rule-based techniques for extraction of question and answer pairs from data" was invented by Xu Zhong (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for rules-based techniques for extraction of question-and-answer pairs from digital documents. In an exemplary technique, a digital text document can be accessed by executing a document indicator. A document hierarchy can be generated. The document hierarchy can include at least one parent node and child nodes corresponding to the parent node. Each node of the chi...