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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
James William Murdock, IV, Amawalk, NY (US);
Eun Ha, Armonk, NY (US);
Chung-Wei Hang, Armonk, NY (US);
Kazi Hasan, Armonk, NY (US);
Nisarga Markandaiah, Armonk, NY (US);
Christopher Munjal Nolan, Acton, MA (US);
Lin Pan, Armonk, NY (US);
Sai Prathyusha Peddi, Cary, NC (US);
Mary Diane Swift, Rochester, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating answers to questions. One method includes receiving a question having question terms; identifying candidate answers to the question having answer terms; searching data sources to determine passages including either a question term or an answer term in the candidate answer; scoring the passages for candidate answers using a scoring mechanism, the scoring mechanism computing a first degree of relevance of the passage to the question terms, computing a second degree of relevance of the passage to the answer terms of one of the candidate answers, and determining a score for the passage by combining the first degree of relevance and the second degree of relevance; ranking candidate answers to the question based on the scores associated with the scoring each of the passages for each of the candidate answers; and providing an answer to the question based on ranking of the candidate answers.