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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2017
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Vivek Varma Datla, Ashland, MA (US);
Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Junyi Liu, Windham, NH (US);
Kathy Mi Young Lee, Westford, MA (US);
Ashequl Qadir, Melrose, MA (US);
Adi Prakash, Waltham, MA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system () for automated question answering, including: semantic space () generated from a corpus of questions and answers; a user interface () configured to receive a question; and a processor () comprising: (i) a question decomposition engine () configured to decompose the question into a domain, a keyword, and a focus word; (ii) a question similarity generator () configured to identify one or more questions in a semantic space using the decomposed question; (iii) an answer extraction and ranking engine () configured to: extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions; and identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and (iv) an answer tuning engine () configured to fine-tune the identified best answer using one or more of the domain, keyword, and focus word; wherein the fine-tuned answer is provided to the user via the user interface.