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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Jennifer Chu-carroll, Hawthorne, NY (US);
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David C. Gondek, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);
James W. Murdock, Iv, Millwood, NY (US);
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Hawthorne, NY (US);
David A. Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David C. Gondek, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);
James W. Murdock, IV, Millwood, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a query, conducting a search through one or more data sources to identify candidate answers to the query, and providing each of the candidate answers with a preliminary score. The method further comprises filtering out any of the candidate answers with a preliminary score that does not satisfy a defined condition. The candidate answers having preliminary scores that satisfy this condition form a subset of the candidate answers. Each of the candidate answers in this subset is processed to produce further scores. A ranking function is applied to these further scores to determine a ranking for each of the candidate answers in the subset; and after this ranking function is applied, one or more of the candidate answers are selected as one or more final answers to the query.