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Patent No.:

US 8340955 B1

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Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2008
Applicants:

Eric W. Brown, New Fairfield, CT (US);

Anni R. Coden, Bronx, NY (US);

John Martin Prager, Pomona, NY (US);

Dragomir Radkov Radev, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Valerie Samn, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Eric W. Brown, New Fairfield, CT (US);

Anni R. Coden, Bronx, NY (US);

John Martin Prager, Pomona, NY (US);

Dragomir Radkov Radev, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Valerie Samn, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.


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Brown, Eric. (2012). System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question (U.S. Patent No. 8340955). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8340955

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