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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2008
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);
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);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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.