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Patent No.:

US 10318529 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2018

Providing answers to questions including assembling answers from multiple document segments

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Eric W. Brown, New Fairfield, CT (US);

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Hawthorne, NY (US);

David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

James W. Murdock, IV, Milwood, NY (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Thu N Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G16H 10/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2018.01); G06Q 50/22 (2018.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); G16H 70/00 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24522 (2019.01); A61B 5/00 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 16/2428 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01); G06F 16/90335 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 17/2235 (2013.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06F 17/30011 (2013.01); G06F 17/3043 (2013.01); G06F 17/30277 (2013.01); G06F 17/30398 (2013.01); G06F 17/30477 (2013.01); G06F 17/30613 (2013.01); G06F 17/30675 (2013.01); G06F 17/30979 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01); G06F 19/325 (2013.01); G06N 5/027 (2013.01); G06Q 50/22 (2013.01); G16H 10/20 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G16H 70/00 (2018.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); Y02A 90/22 (2018.01); Y02A 90/26 (2018.01);
Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying a plurality of candidate answers to the query; and for at least one of these candidate answers, identifying at least one proof of the answer. This proof includes a series of premises, and a multitude of documents are identified that include references to the premises. A set of these documents is selected that include references to all of the premises. This set of documents is used to generate one or more scores for the one of the candidate answers. A defined procedure is applied to the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the answers, and this includes using the one or more scores for the at least one of the candidate answers in the defined procedure to determine the ranking for this one candidate answer.

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