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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Charles E. Beller, Baltimore, MD (US);
Sean L. Bethard, Centreville, VA (US);
William G. Dubyak, Severna Park, MD (US);
Alexander C. Tonetti, Washington, DC (US);
Sean T. Thatcher, Stone Ridge, VA (US);
Julie T. Yu, Centreville, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement an improved search query generation system, the method comprising inputting a natural language question; parsing the natural language question into a parse tree; identifying argument positions comprising one or more argument position terms; for each argument position: comparing a head term's discriminator score against a threshold discriminator score; and if the head term surpasses the threshold discriminator score, adding the head term as a required term to an improved search query; and outputting the improved search query.