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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:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Adam T. Clark, Mantorville, MN (US);

Jeffrey K. Huebert, Rochester, MN (US);

Aspen L. Payton, Byron, MN (US);

John E. Petri, St. Charles, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G06F 17/21 (2013.01); G06F 17/279 (2013.01); G06F 17/2735 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

Techniques disclose validating user-provided text feedback for topical relevance relative to a question asked. A form with at least a first field is received. The first field includes unstructured text content provided as feedback in response to a question. The unstructured text content of the first field is evaluated to identify an answer type. A measure of relevance of the unstructured text content relative to the question is determined based on the evaluation.


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