METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER QUESTION-ANSWERING

Patent №

US 9,020,862

Granted

2015-04-28

Filed 2012

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · vision · kr · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13552998

A method and system for computer question-answering. The method includes: receiving a plurality of the questions to be trained, and obtaining a candidate answer set for each question; determining part of the questions to which the candidate answer sets include correct answers, and using first feature sets of the candidate; obtaining a first mathematical model, which is used to compute a first confidence degree that the candidate answer is a correct answer; computing first confidence degrees of the candidate answers of all the questions to be trained, and for each question, extracting a second feature set related to the first confidence degrees and the first feature set; and obtaining a second mathematic model, which is used to compute a second confidence degree that the candidate answer is a correct answer based on the second feature set.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Vision1.00
Evolutionary computation0.98
AI hardware0.93
Planning0.17
Speech0.01

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 290420678

Assignors

NI, YUAN, QIU, ZHAO MING, ZHANG, LEI

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

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