EVALUATING AND GENERATING SUMMARIES USING NORMALIZED PROBABILITIES

Patent №

US 7,565,372

Granted

2009-07-21

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11225861

A summary system for evaluating summaries of documents and for generating summaries of documents based on normalized probabilities of portions of the document. A summarization system generates a summary by selecting sentences for the summary based on their normalized probabilities as derived from a document model. An evaluation system evaluates the effectiveness of a summary based on a normalized probability for the summary that is derived from a document model.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech0.98
Evolutionary computation0.69
AI hardware0.60
Planning0.35
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 169890763

Assignors

ZHANG, BENYU, ZENG, HUA-JUN, MA, WEI-YING, CHEN, ZHENG, LI, HUA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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