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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:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Daniel J. McCloskey, Dublin, IE;

William G. O'Keeffe, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Timothy V. Paciolla, Austin, TX (US);

Cale R. Vardy, Ontario, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanism is provided in a question answering system for categorizing questions. The mechanism clusters documents from a corpus of documents to form a nested structure of clusters of documents. The mechanism records questions answered by question answering system in a database in association with answers returned and answer confidence values. The mechanism maps the questions to the nested structure of clusters of documents to form a nested structure of clusters of questions. The mechanism presents recommended questions based on the nested structure of clusters of questions in a user interface of the question answering system.


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