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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:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, White Plains, NY (US);

Alfio M. Gliozzo, New York, NY (US);

Adam Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to an aspect, a term saliency model is trained to identify salient terms that provide supporting evidence of a candidate answer in a question answering computer system based on a training dataset. The question answering computer system can perform term saliency weighting of a candidate passage to identify one or more salient terms and term weights in the candidate passage based on the term saliency model. The one or more salient terms and term weights can be provided to at least one passage scorer of the question answering computer system to determine whether the candidate passage is justified as providing supporting evidence of the candidate answer.


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