Automatic construction of arguments

US10438121B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ehud Aharoni · Kfar Sava, IL
• Dan Gutfreund · Newton, US
• Daniel Hershcovich · Givat Ela, IL
• Tamar Lavee · Nes Ziona, IL
• Ran Levy · Givatayim, IL
• Ruty Rinott · Jerusalem, IL
• Noam Slonim · Jerusalem, IL
• David Carmel · Haifa, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for receiving a topic under consideration (TUC); providing the TUC as input to a claim function, wherein the claim function is configured to mine at least one content resource, and applying the claim function to the at least one content resource, to extract claims with respect to the TUC; and providing the TUC as input to a classification function, and applying the classification function to one or more claims of the extracted claims, to output corresponding one or more classification tags, wherein each classification tag is associated with its corresponding claim.