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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:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mohamed N. Ahmed, Leesburg, VA (US);

Charles E. Beller, Baltimore, MD (US);

William G. Dubyak, Severna Park, MD (US);

Palani Sakthi, Palatine, IL (US);

Kristen M. Summers, Takoma Park, MD (US);

Andeep S. Toor, Chantilly, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/90324 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/90332 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for generating follow-up questions based on machine learning utilizing a computing device. The embodiment may include receiving an input question from a user. The embodiment may include parsing the received input question to extract input question components. Parsing utilizes natural language processing techniques. The embodiment may include executing trained question component models to predict follow-up question components. The extracted input question components are utilized as inputs to the trained question component models. The embodiment may include combining the predicted follow-up question components to generate one or more follow-up questions. The embodiment may include returning the one or more follow-up questions to the user.


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