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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Corville Orain Allen, Morrisville, NC (US);
Ian Michael Bennett, San Jose, CA (US);
Torsten Bittner, San Jose, CA (US);
Kay Muller, Dublin, IE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, and computer program product for expanding an answer key to verify a question and answer system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A definition is constructed of an extended answer type. The extended answer type represents an answer type of an unrepresented answer. The unrepresented answer is unrepresented in the answer key as a valid response to a question in a set of valid responses to the question in the answer key. The extended answer type is created in the answer key according to the definition. The extended answer type is populated such that the unrepresented answer becomes as additional valid response to the question, the creating and the populating extending the answer key to form an extended answer key. The populated extended answer type in the extended answer key is used to verify that a generated answer from the Q and A system is correct.