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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Daniel M. Jamrog, Acton, MA (US);
Jason D. LaVoie, Littleton, MA (US);
Nicholas W. Orrick, Austin, TX (US);
Kristin A. Witherspoon, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2705 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach is provided to adjust time dependent terminology in a question and answering (QA) system. The approach ingests a set of documents to produce a corpus utilized by the QA system. A base time is established and the approach acquires a temporally accurate lexicon of terms that correspond to the base time. A corpus of the QA system is updated according to the lexicon. The QA system answers a question according to the updated corpus.