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Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Michael W. Britt, Rochester, MN (US);

Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Rochester, MN (US);

Thomas P. Pitzen, Rochester, MN (US);

Richard J. Stevens, Monkton, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 99/00 (2010.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 99/005 (2013.01); H04L 45/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods to provide selective supporting evidence processing by applying a first machine learning (ML) model to a first candidate answer to generate a first confidence score that does not consider supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, determining, from a second ML model, an expected contribution of processing supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, and upon determining that the expected contribution does not exceed a specified threshold, skipping supporting evidence processing for the first candidate answer.


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