Patent №
US 8,301,438
Granted
2012-10-30
Filed 2010
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
6
ml · nlp · vision · speech · kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12765990
A method and an apparatus for selecting an answer to a natural language question. The method includes: detecting a named entity in the natural language question; extracting information related to an answer from the natural language question; searching in linked data according to the detected named entity; generating a candidate answer according to a search result; parsing the candidate answer according to the information related to the answer; and obtaining a value of a feature of the candidate answer; and evaluating each candidate answer by synthesizing the value of the feature of the candidate answer.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 248020364
Assignors
FERRUCCI, DAVID ANGELO, MA, LI, PAN, YUE, QIU, ZHAO MING, WANG, CHEN, WELTY, CHRISTOPHER, ZHANG, LEI
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