Patent №
US 9,721,005
Granted
2017-08-01
Filed 2016
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
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
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 378110842
Assignors
BYRON, DONNA K., PIKOVSKY, ALEXANDER, RADLEY, DAVID G., WINKLER, TIMOTHY P.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.