Pattern Induction — What is a Pattern?

Part I of III by authors: Dr. Maeda Hanafi, Dr. Yannis Katsis, Dr. Yunyao Li, Dr. Bikalpa Neupane

• a financial analyst needing to extract company’s revenues from the quarterly reports and market analyst reports
• a quality assurance professional extracting product numbers to solve customer complaints etc.

This process of extracting concepts and key information out of the large bodies of texts and documents is cumbersome and time-consuming. Our team at IBM has distilled years of research and engineering into ‘Pattern Induction’, an AI-powered tool designed to substantially speed up this process.