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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Eric L. Erpenbach, Rochester, MN (US);

Andrew J. Lavery, Austin, TX (US);

Richard J. Stevens, Monkton, VT (US);

Fernando J. Suarez Saiz, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 17/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

Natural language processing includes processing unstructured data in response to a request for a conclusion to a line of inquiry to produce structured information that conforms to a computer readable information schema. Values obtained from the unstructured data are assigned to attributes of the structured information and determining a candidate conclusion to the line of inquiry based on the value-assigned attributes. A confidence score is computed that is indicative of a sufficiency of the candidate conclusion as the conclusion to the line of inquiry. One or more of the attributes are displayed to a user for modification responsive to the confidence score of the corresponding conclusion failing to meet a confidence criterion. The displayed attributes are ranked by relevance of the attribute to the corresponding conclusion. The conclusion to the line of inquiry is determined based on the modified values of the user-selected attributes.


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