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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Kai Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Akamine, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kai Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Akamine, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30654 (2013.01); G06F 17/30401 (2013.01); G06F 17/30646 (2013.01); G06F 17/30663 (2013.01); G06F 17/30666 (2013.01);
Abstract
A question-answering device, a question-answering method, and a question-answering program that can obtain an answer to an inputted query with high probability are described. A score calculation elementdetermines a matching degree between the group of the style and the topic of an inputted query and the group of the style and the topic of the query of question-answer pairs. A search result presentation elementnarrows the question-answer pairs on the basis of the matching degree.