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

Claim 9:
10. A computer implemented method for ranking tabular data entities by likelihood of comprising answers for natural language queries, the method comprising:
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 at least one 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.