Patent ID: 11922129
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer system comprising:
a computer processor operatively coupled to memory;
a sentence assembler operatively associated with the computer processor to:
access candidate text and a candidate pair of first and second phrases; and
substitute the first and second phrases into a plurality of cause-effect patterns to generate a plurality of variant sentences including the first and second phrases; and

an artificial intelligence (AI) platform in communication with the computer processor and the memory, the AI platform comprising:
an AI model configured to:
determine respective probabilities that the variant sentences are inferred from the candidate text;
calculate a statistical measure of the respective probabilities; and
assess the calculated statistical measure to ascertain whether the first and second phrases possess a causal relationship or non-causal relationship to one another; and

a director configured to populate a knowledge base with the candidate text including the first and second phrases possessing the causal relationship.