Patent №
US 9,852,213
Granted
2017-12-26
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
15144282
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries, and conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries. A ranking function is applied to each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for each of these candidate answers; and for each of the subqueries, one of the candidate answers to the subquery is selected based on this ranking. A logical synthesis component is applied to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected the candidate answers to the subqueries. In one embodiment, the procedure applied by the logical synthesis component to synthesize the candidate answer for the input query is determined from the input query.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 384370837
Assignors
BROWN, ERIC W., CHU-CARROLL, JENNIFER, FERRUCCI, DAVID A., LALLY, ADAM P., MURDOCK, JAMES W., PRAGER, JOHN M.
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