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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2010
David Angelo Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
LI MA, Beijing, CN;
Yue Pan, Beijing, CN;
Zhao Ming Qiu, Beijing, CN;
Chen Wang, Beijing, CN;
Christopher Welty, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
David Angelo Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Li Ma, Beijing, CN;
Yue Pan, Beijing, CN;
Zhao Ming Qiu, Beijing, CN;
Chen Wang, Beijing, CN;
Christopher Welty, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for selecting an answer to a natural language question. The method includes: detecting a named entity in the natural language question; extracting information related to an answer from the natural language question; searching in linked data according to the detected named entity; generating a candidate answer according to a search result; parsing the candidate answer according to the information related to the answer; and obtaining a value of a feature of the candidate answer; and evaluating each candidate answer by synthesizing the value of the feature of the candidate answer.