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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Geoffrey G. Zweig, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards automated processes for generating sentence completion questions based at least in part on a language model. Using the language model, a sentence is located, and alternates for a focus word (or words) in the sentence are automatically provided. Also described is automated filtering candidate sentences to locate the sentence, filtering the alternates based upon elimination criteria, scoring sentences with the correct word and as modified the alternates, and ranking the alternates. Manual selection may be used along with the automated processes.