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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Corville O. Allen, Durham, NC (US);
Scott Robert Carrier, Durham, NC (US);
Scott N. Gerard, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Sterling Richardson Smith, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
David Blake Styles, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Eric Woods, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, receiving a first plurality of candidate answers and weights to a first search query for a first user from a first stage of a non-semantic search engine routing and processing path; augmenting the weights for the plurality of candidate answers according to a set of preference coefficients according to a first set of preferences for the first user; selecting one or more of the first plurality of candidate answers according to the augmented weights; and producing an output including the selected one or more candidate answers.