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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

James J. Fan, Hawthorne, NY (US);

David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

David C. Gondek, Providence, RI (US);

Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Westwood, NJ (US);

Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);

James W. Murdock, Millwood, NY (US);

Wlodek W. Zadrozny, Tarrytown, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G09B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2872 (2013.01); G09B 7/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence 'score' or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.


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