SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER TO A NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION
Patent №
US 8,340,955
Granted
2012-12-25
Filed 2008
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
7
ml · nlp · vision · speech · kr · planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12110481
Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 282410740
Assignors
BROWN, ERIC W., COHEN, ANNI R., PRAGER, JOHN M., RADEV, DRAGOMIR R., SAMN, VALERIE
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