International Business Machines Corporation

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation

Tracy Michael Canada

Jim Dewan

Edward Alan Addison

Eduardo Kaufmann-Malaga

Michael Vann

Techniques for data curation are provided. A data set is received for ingestion into a question answering system, where the data set includes a first question and a first answer. Relevance of the first question is validated by comparing the first question to a first question cluster in the question answering system, and it is determined that the first answer satisfies predefined security criteria. The first data set is evaluated to identify a set of references, and a generalized data set is generated by replacing each respective reference of the set of references with a corresponding entity identifier. The first generalized data set is then ingested into the question answering system.

Data curation for corpus enrichment

Techniques for automated training content generation are provided. A plurality of questions are retrieved, where each of the plurality of questions is associated with an answer in a plurality of answers. Further, it is determined that a first and a second answer in the plurality of answers are equivalent. A first question corresponding to the first answer and a second question corresponding to the second answer are identified, and a first question cluster including the first question and the second question is generated. The first question cluster is associated with at least one of the first answer and the second answer. Finally, upon determining that a number of questions in the plurality of questions that are included in the first question cluster exceeds a first predefined threshold, the first question cluster is ingested into a question answering system.

Analysis of content sources for automatic generation of training content

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for initiating a service call for a hardware malfunction in a POS system, the POS system having a POS controller domains, the POS controller domain composed of a POS controller and one or more POS terminals, the POS controller operatively coupled to a service dispatcher for a hardware service provider, that include: detecting, by a POS operating system installed on the POS controller, a hardware error within the POS controller domain, the hardware error described by hardware error data; notifying, by the POS operating system, a system administrator of the detected hardware error in dependence upon the hardware error data; generating, by the POS operating system, a service request message in dependence upon the hardware error data; and transferring, by the POS operating system, the service request message to the service dispatcher, the service dispatcher initiating a service call by the hardware service provider.

Initiating a service call for a hardware malfunction in a point of sale system

A method for automatically detecting an attempted invalid access to a memory address in accordance with an exemplary embodiment is provided. The method includes reading a first data set having a software application name and a memory address stored therein utilizing the mainframe computer. The memory address indicates a portion of a memory that is not allowed to be changed. The method further includes detecting when a software application is attempting to access the memory address and setting a first bit in the memory to a first value in response to the detection utilizing the mainframe computer. The method further includes storing a name of the software application, the memory address, and contents of the portion of the memory specified by the memory address, in a second data set, when the first bit has the first value utilizing the mainframe computer. The method further includes displaying an error message on a display device when the first bit has the first value.

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Fuquay Varina, NC, United States of America

Tracy Michael Canada