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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:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Hiroshi Kanayama, Tokyo, JP;

Risa Kawanaka, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G06F 40/263 (2020.01); G06F 16/34 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G06F 16/345 (2019.01); G06F 40/263 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method of question answering from multilingual information sources is disclosed. The present invention discloses a method, a computer system and a program product for selecting an information source language of an information source, the method includes: receiving a question; analyzing the question to obtain a category information of a word included in the question; obtaining a word included in the category information as estimated topic or region related to the question; determining a candidate for an information source language using the estimated topic or region; and selecting the information source language and corresponding information sources for retrieving documents to generate an answer of the question.


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