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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. 01, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Edward G. Katz, Washington, DC (US);

Stephen A. Boxwell, Franklin, OH (US);

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

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01);
Abstract

A service, in response to receiving a question in a natural language format, identifies one or more selected passages from a corpus that are relevant to a focus of the question from among multiple passages in the corpus. The service aligns one or more answer grammatical properties of one or more answers, selected from the one or more selected passages, to one or more question grammatical properties of the focus of the question. The service returns the one or more answers in response to the question.


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