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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Corville O. Allen, Morrisville, NC (US);
Lisa M. Bradley, Cary, NC (US);
Christina R. Carlson, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Andrew R. Freed, Cary, NC (US);
Roderick C. Henderson, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided to determine answer stability in a question answering (QA) system. In the approach, a question submitted to a question answering (QA) system is selected and data pertaining to a candidate answers generated by the QA system are analyzed. The analysis of the data results in a stability characteristic that pertains to the candidate answers. A confidence value associated with the candidate answers is adjusted based on the respective answer's stability characteristic. One or more of the candidate answers are provided to a requestor based on the adjusted confidence values.