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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Ntt, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
Kyosuke Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
Itsumi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Hisako Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
NTT, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A learning apparatus executes receiving a text and a question associated with the text, and calculating an evidence score expressing a likelihood of a character string included in the text as evidence for an answer to the question by using a model parameter of a first neural network; extracting, by sampling from a predetermined distribution having the evidence score as a parameter, a first set indicating a set of the character strings as the evidence for the answer from the text; receiving the question and the first set and extracting the answer from the first set by using a model parameter of a second neural network; and learning the model parameters of the first and second neural networks by calculating a gradient through error back propagation by using a continuous relaxation and a first loss between the answer and a true answer to the question.