Answering Questions Via a Persona-Based Natural Language Processing (NLP) System

Patent №

US 9,721,005

Granted

2017-08-01

Filed 2016

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15051843

A mechanism is provided, in a question answering (QA) system, for performing persona-based question answering is provided. An identification of a requested persona is received from a user along with a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by the QA system. Responsive to receiving the requested persona, components of the QA system are customized to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona. An answer to the input question is generated from the viewpoint of the requested persona based on the customization of the components of the QA system. The answer to the input question is output in a form representative of the requested persona.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
AI hardware0.70
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 378110842

Assignors

BYRON, DONNA K., PIKOVSKY, ALEXANDER, RADLEY, DAVID G., WINKLER, TIMOTHY P.

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