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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David C. Gondek, Astoria, NY (US);
Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Westwood, NJ (US);
Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David C. Gondek, Astoria, NY (US);
Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Westwood, NJ (US);
Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Diffusing evidence among candidate answers during question answering may identify a relationship between a first candidate answer and a second candidate answer, wherein the candidate answers are generated by a question-answering computer process, the candidate answers have associated supporting evidence, and the candidate answers have associated confidence scores. All or some of the evidence may be transferred from the first candidate answer to the second candidate answer based on the identified relationship. A new confidence score may be computed for the second candidate answer based on the transferred evidence.