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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Corville O. Allen, Morrisville, NC (US);

Roberto Delima, Apex, NC (US);

Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Rochester, MN (US);

John E. Petri, St. Charles, MN (US);

Marie L. Setnes, Bloomington, MN (US);

Patrick M. Wildt, Morgan, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30011 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01);
Abstract

System, method, and computer program product to identify candidate values to provide to a deep question answering (QA) system as part of a case, by receiving a case, wherein the case includes a plurality of documents for evaluation by the deep QA system, evaluating the plurality of documents using natural language processing (NLP) to identify one or more concepts reflected by text content within the plurality of documents in the case, wherein the plurality of documents includes a plurality of distinct values for at least a first one of the concepts, selecting, from the plurality of distinct values, a candidate value for the first concept to provide to the deep QA system to process the case, and prior to submitting the case to the deep QA system, returning at least the candidate value selected for the first concept to present in a user interface.


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