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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mo Yu, White Plains, NY (US);
Li Zhang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hui Su, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Shiyu Chang, Elmsford, NY (US);
Ming Tan, Malden, MA (US);
Xiangyang Mou, Troy, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for complementary evidence identification in natural language inference. A given question is obtained and a set of N passages is obtained from a database. A probability is determined, for each passage of the set of N passages, of a corresponding passage being a supportive passage for the given question and the set of N passages is ranked based on the determined probabilities. M passages that are ranked 1 to M of the set of N passages are selected. A set of L passages is selected based on a plurality of scores, each score assigned to a set of candidate passages of the set of N passages, each score being based on the determined probabilities, the selected M passages, and a weighted regulation parameter. The set of L passages is provided to a computerized machine learning system to answer the question based on the set of L passages.