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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Erinc Merdivan, Dublin, IE;

John A. Riendeau, Atlanta, GA (US);

Jadran Sirotkovic, Dublin, IE;

Michael D. Whitley, Durham, NC (US);

Le Zhang, Durham, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 40/247 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/022 (2013.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 40/247 (2020.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms for processing a knowledge canvassing request receive a request specifying an entity of interest from an originator of the request and analyze the request to extract a feature of the request. The mechanisms determine whether the request is a targeted natural language question to be answered or a knowledge canvassing request, based on the extracted feature. In response to determining that the request is a knowledge canvassing request, the mechanisms process the request by identifying entities represented in a knowledge graph data structure as being related to the entity of interest. The mechanisms output results of the processing of the request to the originator of the request.


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