LEXICAL ANSWER TYPE CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION

Patent №

US 8,510,296

Granted

2013-08-13

Filed 2011

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13242290

A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.97
Knowledge representation0.93
AI hardware0.54
Evolutionary computation0.50
Speech0.42
Planning0.30
Vision0.10

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 269590045

Assignors

FAN, JAMES J., FERRUCCI, DAVID A., GONDEK, DAVID C., KALYANPUR, ADITYA A., LALLY, ADAM P., MURDOCK, JAMES W., ZADROZNY, WLODEK W.

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