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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Peter F. Haggar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dane A. Johnson, Townsend, MA (US);
Stephan J. Roorda, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Richard L. Stillwell, Austin, TX (US);
Michael D. Whitley, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer for an input question when the answer is not directly present in a corpus of information. An input question is received from a computing device and analyzed to determine whether the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable. In response to a determination that the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable, one or more constituent data values are retrieved, from a corpus of information, for calculating the requested answer to the input question. A value corresponding to the requested answer is calculated based on the one or more retrieved constituent data values and is then output as the requested answer to the input question.