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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Jaime Teevan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Susan T. Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael S. Bernstein, Stanford, CA (US);
Eric Horvitz, kirkland, WA (US);
Meredith Morris, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jin-Woo Jeong, Seoul, KR;
Daniel Liebling, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Technologies pertaining to generating crowd-sourced answers are described herein. A text string is received, and the text string is parsed to determine if the text string represents an information need that is desirably answered by a collective of crowd workers. When it is determined that the information need is desirably answered by the collective of crowd workers, a query or question that represents the information need is provided to a first plurality of crowd workers, who generate proposed answers for the information need. The proposed answers are provided to a second plurality of crowd workers, who vote on the proposed answers. An answer to the information need is output based upon responses of the crowd workers.