Adjusting Time Dependent Terminology in a Question and Answer System

Patent №

US 10,474,747

Granted

2019-11-12

Filed 2013

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14107313

An approach is provided to adjust time dependent terminology in a question and answering (QA) system. The approach ingests a set of documents to produce a corpus utilized by the QA system. A base time is established and the approach acquires a temporally accurate lexicon of terms that correspond to the base time. A corpus of the QA system is updated according to the lexicon. The QA system answers a question according to the updated corpus.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech0.97
AI hardware0.70
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 317890742

Assignors

JAMROG, DANIEL M., LAVOIE, JASON D., ORRICK, NICHOLAS W., WITHERSPOON, KRISTIN A.

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