Patent ID: 11915129
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for ranking tabular data entities by likelihood of comprising answers for natural language queries, the system comprising:
at least one memory storing a machine learning based model and a code; and
a processor adapted to execute the code for:
receiving a query and a plurality of descriptions of tabular entities, each description comprising a plurality of separate representations, and each of the plurality of separate representations represents a tabular data aspect, the separate representations comprising one of a list of words or combinations of words, or an encoded and/or an embedded representation of one or more properties of at least one tabular entity;
generating a joint representation by combining a plurality of combined representations from the plurality of separate representations, wherein the combining is executed by a gated multimodal unit and the joint representation is based on all of or a selection of the plurality of separate representations; and
generating a ranking for at least one of the tabular entities descriptions by combining the query and the joint representation.