Question Urgency in QA System with Visual Representation in Three Dimensional Space

Patent №

US 10,692,498

Granted

2020-06-23

Filed 2017

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15790511

An approach is provided that identifies a current mood state of a requestor from whom a question has been submitted to a question answering (QA) system. The approach determines, based on the identified mood state, an urgency associated with the requestor. Data pertaining to a number of candidate answers is analyzed with the candidate answers being generated by the QA system. The analysis results in an urgency characteristic that pertains to each of the candidate answers. Scoring of the candidate answers is adjusted based on a comparison of the requestor's urgency and the urgency characteristic associated with the candidate answers. Answers are selected from the candidate answers and returned to the requestor with the selected answers based on the adjusted scoring.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06T 13/40G06F 16/3329G06F 40/30G06V 40/174G10L 15/14G06F 17/00G10L 15/26G10L 25/63

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.98
Speech0.83
AI hardware0.51
Evolutionary computation0.20
Vision0.05

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 439230920

Assignors

ANDERSEN, JOHN J., ERENEL, DOGUKAN, LYLE, RICHARD O., SANTIAGO, AJIEMAR D., WU, WILSON L.

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