CATEGORIZING QUESTIONS IN A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 10,366,107

Granted

2019-07-30

Filed 2015

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14615731

A mechanism is provided in a question answering system for categorizing questions. The mechanism clusters documents from a corpus of documents to form a nested structure of clusters of documents. The mechanism records questions answered by question answering system in a database in association with answers returned and answer confidence values. The mechanism maps the questions to the nested structure of clusters of documents to form a nested structure of clusters of questions. The mechanism presents recommended questions based on the nested structure of clusters of questions in a user interface of the question answering system.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.75
Vision0.04
Speech0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 349060348

Assignors

MCCLOSKEY, DANIEL J., O'KEEFFE, WILLIAM G., PACIOLLA, TIMOTHY V., VARDY, CALE R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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