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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:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 18, 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);

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06N 99/00 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30345 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30876 (2013.01); G06N 5/025 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and computer program products to perform an operation comprising: identifying a first attribute of a source code in a deep question answering system, computing an influence score for the first attribute based on a rule in the source code used to compute a confidence score for each of a plurality of candidate answers generated by the deep question answering system, computing an importance score for the first attribute based at least in part on the computed influence score, and upon determining that the importance score exceeds a predefined threshold, storing an indication that the first attribute is an important attribute relative to other attributes specified in the source code.


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