SOFT TEMPORAL MATCHING IN A SYNONYM-SENSITIVE FRAMEWORK FOR QUESTION ANSWERING

Patent №

US 10,984,328

Granted

2021-04-20

Filed 2017

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15439219

The disclosed embodiments include a Question and Answer (QA) system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method configured to adjust passage relevancy to a question based on time. The disclosed embodiments seek to improve the process of providing answers to questions that include a temporal reference. In particular, the disclosed embodiments are better able to provide answers to questions that include a temporal reference that does not have an exact matching temporal reference in an answer source of a QA system.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.27
Speech0.10
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 413410737

Assignors

BOXWELL, STEPHEN A, BRAKE, KYLE M., FROST, KEITH G., VERNIER, STANLEY J.

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

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