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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:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Darryl M. Adderly, Morrisville, NC (US);

Corville O. Allen, Morrisville, NC (US);

Scott N. Gerard, Wake Forest, NC (US);

Robert K. Tucker, Cambridge, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/2458 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24573 (2019.01); G06F 16/2477 (2019.01); G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided to identify permanence data corresponding to terms included in a corpus of a question answering (QA) system. Based on the identified permanence, a time-based confidence of each of the terms is established. Terms are identified as a plurality of candidate answers to a question posed to the QA system. Each of the plurality of candidate answers are scored with the scoring being at least partially based on the time-based confidence established for each of the terms.


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