Knowledge Corroboration

Patent №

US 8,706,653

Granted

2014-04-22

Filed 2010

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12963352

Knowledge corroboration is described. In an embodiment many judges provide answers to many questions so that at least one answer is provided to each question and at least some of the questions have answers from more than one judge. In an example a probabilistic learning system takes features describing the judges or the questions or both and uses those features to learn an expertise of each judge. For example, the probabilistic learning system has a graphical assessment component which aggregates the answers in a manner which takes into account the learnt expertise in order to determine enhanced answers. In an example the enhanced answers are used for knowledge base clean-up or web-page classification and the learnt expertise is used to select judges for future questions. In an example the probabilistic learning system has a logical component that propagates answers according to logical relations between the questions.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Vision1.00
AI hardware0.99
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 254700706

Assignors

KASNECI, GJERGJI, VAN GAEL, JURGEN ANNE FRANCOIS MARIE, GRAEPEL, THORE, HERBRICH, RALF, STERN, DAVID

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

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