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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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.