IMAGES FOR A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 9,495,387

Granted

2016-11-15

Filed 2014

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

7

ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14476902

A method for providing content relevant images for an input question to a deep question answering system is disclosed. The method can include formulating, in response to receiving the input question, an answer to the input question. The method can also include identifying, based on the answer to the input question, a set of candidate images from a corpus of information. The set of candidate images may relate to the answer. The method can also include determining, based on a confidence value of the set of candidate images and a designated display specification, a first subset of the set of candidate images to provide in a display area. The method can also include selecting the first subset to be provided in the display area.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Vision1.00
AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.99
Knowledge representation0.99
Evolutionary computation0.59
Speech0.09

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 336660806

Assignors

AHUJA, SALIL, ISENSEE, SCOTT H., LEWIS, SCOTT M., O'KEEFFE, WILLIAM G., VARDY, CALE R.

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