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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Branimir K. Boguraev, Bedford, NY (US);
David W. Buchanan, Ossining, NY (US);
Jennifer Chu-carroll, Dobbs Ferry, NY (US);
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Westwood, NJ (US);
James W. Murdock, Iv, Milllwood, NY (US);
Siddharth A. Patwardhan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Branimir K. Boguraev, Bedford, NY (US);
David W. Buchanan, Ossining, NY (US);
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Dobbs Ferry, NY (US);
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Westwood, NJ (US);
James W. Murdock, IV, Milllwood, NY (US);
Siddharth A. Patwardhan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of generating secondary questions in a question-answer system. Missing information is identified from a corpus of data using a computerized device. The missing information comprises any information that improves confidence scores for candidate answers to a question. The computerized device automatically generates a plurality of hypotheses concerning the missing information. The computerized device automatically generates at least one secondary question based on each of the plurality of hypotheses. The hypotheses are ranked based on relative utility to determine an order in which the computerized device outputs the at least one secondary question to external sources to obtain responses.