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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2024
Pryon Incorporated, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ellen Eide Kislal, Leawood, KS (US);
David Nahamoo, Great Neck, NY (US);
Vaibhava Goel, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Etienne Marcheret, White Plains, NY (US);
Steven John Rennie, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Chul Sung, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Marie Wenzel Meteer, Arlington, MA (US);
Pryon Incorporated, Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A question-answering system that receive a natural-language question includes a database to provide a basis for that answer and a structured-query generator that constructs a structured query from the question and uses it to obtain an answer to the question from the database. The method further comprises generating a first answer to said first question, wherein generating said first answer comprises causing said question to traverse a first path through said question-answering system, wherein the first path comprises a knowledge base constructed from content of the document collection using a machine learning BERT model; and causing said question to traverse a second path through said question-answering system to generate a second answer to said question, said second answer differing from said first answer, wherein the second path comprises a structured query generator and the database, the database being distinct from the knowledge base.