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Granted Patent B2
US 10,606,951 · App. 15/954,933 · Granted Mar 31, 2020

Optimizing resource allocation to a bid request response based on cognitive analysis of natural language documentation

Inventors: Faried Abrahams (Laytonsville, MD); Rashida A. Hodge (Ossining, NY); Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, AU); Amol A. Dhondse (Kothrud, IN); Anand Pikle (Pune, IN)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
G06F17/278G06F16/9024G06F16/9038G06F16/90332G06F17/277G06N20/00
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Patent No.
US 10,606,951
App. No.
15/954,933
Granted
Mar 31, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Approaches presented herein enable optimizing resource allocation to a bid request response based on a cognitive analysis of natural language artifacts. More specifically, a bid request and a plurality of supporting artifacts in a natural language are obtained. A cognitive analysis of the request and supporting artifacts is performed to extract a set of information entities. The extracted information entities are normalized using a lexical-relations based graph database to classify the set of extracted information entities as standardized concepts. A subset of the set of the standardized concepts is identified as a set of parameters corresponding to a set of predetermined variables. Each variable of the set of predetermined variables is weighted according to a likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource. A probability that a particular resource is relevant is determined based on the weighting and that resource is assigned to the bid request response.

Claims (41)

1. A method for optimizing resource allocation to a bid request response based on a cognitive analysis of natural language artifacts, comprising:

obtaining a request and a plurality of supporting artifacts in a natural language;

performing a cognitive analysis of the request and supporting artifacts to extract a set of information entities;

normalizing the extracted information entities using a lexical-relations based graph database to classify the set of extracted information entities as standardized concepts with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated;

identifying, for a portion of the request, at least a subset of the set of the standardized concepts, with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated, as a set of parameters corresponding with a set of predetermined variables;

weighting each variable of the set of predetermined variables according to a likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request; and

assigning a particular resource to the bid request response in response to a probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request based on the weighted variables.

2. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising generating a list of probabilities that a set of resources are relevant to the portion of the request.

3. The method of claim 1 , the determining a probability further comprising applying a first-order supervised multi-label learning classification algorithm to the weighted set of predetermined variables.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request has a variance and the method further comprises iterating the identifying, weighting, and determining until the variance is below a pre-defined threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of supporting artifacts comprises an artifact selected from the group consisting of: historical data, public information, and correspondence.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one variable of the set of predetermined variables is a variable selected from the group consisting of: request type, deal size, techno-functional area of a deal, deal type, deal coverage, industry, sub-domain of an industry, techno-functional area of an industry, geography, client size, historical spending, inclination to a bidder, inclination to partners, bidder strength in a domain, sales organization size of a bidder, section of the request, and techno-functional entities of the request.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request is based on historical data processed by a self-learning system.

8. A computer system for optimizing resource allocation to a bid request response based on a cognitive analysis of natural language artifacts, the computer system comprising:

a memory medium comprising program instructions;

a bus coupled to the memory medium; and

a processor, for executing the program instructions, coupled to a bid request analysis engine via the bus that when executing the program instructions causes the system to:

obtain a request and a plurality of supporting artifacts in a natural language;

perform a cognitive analysis of the request and supporting artifacts to extract a set of information entities;

normalize the extracted information entities using a lexical-relations based graph database to classify the set of extracted information entities as standardized concepts with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated;

identify, for a portion of the request, at least a subset of the set of the standardized concepts, with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated, as a set of parameters corresponding with a set of predetermined variables;

weight each variable of the set of predetermined variables according to a likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request; and

assign a particular resource to the bid request response in response to a probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request based on the weighted variables.

9. The computer system of claim 8 , the instructions further causing the system to generate a list of probabilities that a set of resources are relevant to the portion of the request.

10. The computer system of claim 8 , the instructions further causing the system to apply a first-order supervised multi-label learning classification algorithm to the weighted set of predetermined variables.

11. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request has a variance and the instructions further cause the system to iterate the identifying, weighting, and determining until the variance is below a pre-defined threshold.

12. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of supporting artifacts comprises an artifact selected from the group consisting of: historical data, public information, and correspondence.

13. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein at least one variable of the set of predetermined variables is a variable selected from the group consisting of: request type, deal size, techno-functional area of a deal, deal type, deal coverage, industry, sub-domain of an industry, techno-functional area of an industry, geography, client size, historical spending, inclination to a bidder, inclination to partners, bidder strength in a domain, sales organization size of a bidder, section of the request, and techno-functional entities of the request.

14. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request is based on historical data processed by a self-learning system.

15. A computer program product for optimizing resource allocation to a bid request response based on a cognitive analysis of natural language artifacts, the computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device, and program instructions stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, to:

obtain a request and a plurality of supporting artifacts in a natural language;

perform a cognitive analysis of the request and supporting artifacts to extract a set of information entities;

normalize the extracted information entities using a lexical-relations based graph database to classify the set of extracted information entities as standardized concepts with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated;

identify, for a portion of the request, at least a subset of the set of the standardized concepts, with which the set of extracted information entities are most closely associated, as a set of parameters corresponding with a set of predetermined variables;

weight each variable of the set of predetermined variables according to a likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request; and

assign a particular resource to the bid request response in response to a probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request based on the weighted variables.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , the computer readable storage device further comprising instructions to generate a list of probabilities that a set of resources are relevant to the portion of the request.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 , the computer readable storage device further comprising instructions to apply a first-order supervised multi-label learning classification algorithm to the weighted set of predetermined variables.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the probability that the particular resource is relevant to the portion of the request has a variance and the computer readable storage device further comprising instructions to iterate the identifying, weighting, and determining until the variance is below a pre-defined threshold.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein at least one variable of the set of predetermined variables is a variable selected from the group consisting of: request type, deal size, techno-functional area of a deal, deal type, deal coverage, industry, sub-domain of an industry, techno-functional area of an industry, geography, client size, historical spending, inclination to a bidder, inclination to partners, bidder strength in a domain, sales organization size of a bidder, section of the request, and techno-functional entities of the request.

20. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the likelihood that the variable indicates a relevance of a resource to the portion of the request is based on historical data processed by a self-learning system.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2018
From: ABRAHAMS, FARIED; HODGE, RASHIDA A.; SIVAKUMAR, GANDHI; DHONDSE, AMOL A.; PIKLE, ANAND
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045561/0461 →
Continuity (1)
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