Identification and Evaluation of Lexical Answer Type Conditions in a Question to Generate Correct Answers

Patent №

US 10,176,228

Granted

2019-01-08

Filed 2014

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14565672

An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager receives a question and selects candidate answers based upon a lexical answer type included in the question. The knowledge manager evaluates the candidate answers against conditions detected in the question and generates condition fulfillment scores accordingly. In turn, the knowledge manager ranks the candidate answers based upon the corresponding condition fulfillment scores.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/24573G06F 16/23G06F 16/243G06F 16/245G06F 16/24575G06F 16/24578G06F 16/248

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.95
Machine learning0.94
Planning0.67
Evolutionary computation0.17
Vision0.02
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 344540477

Assignors

BISHOP, TIMOTHY A., BOXWELL, STEPHEN A., BRUMFIELD, BENJAMIN L., DESAI, NIRAV P., VERNIER, STANLEY J.

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