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
Lab
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.
AI classification
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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