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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Mazin Gilbert, Warren, NJ (US);
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gokhan Tur, Los Altos, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry, question-answer pairs retrieved from the network are analyzed to determine a response to the inquiry. The QA pairs are not predefined. As a result, the QA pairs have to be analyzed in order to determine whether they are responsive to a particular inquiry. Questions of the QA pairs may be repetitive and similar to one another even for very different subjects, and without additional contextual and meta-level information, are not useful in determining whether their corresponding answer responds to an inquiry.