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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:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);

James S. Luke, Cowes, GB;

Philip D. Tetlow, Cleveland, GB;

Ralph P. Williams, Danville, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/247 (2020.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/247 (2020.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01); G06K 9/6257 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product of question generation in a cognitive system, comprising: receiving a training question; applying rules of grammar and common usage to generate variants of the training question; identifying any generalized versions of specific words, such as verbs or nouns in the training question; identifying any questions related to the training question; filtering out, utilizing a classifier, generated variants which do not make sense; and providing one or more output questions, synonymous to the training question.


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