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Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01);
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.


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