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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mariana Alupului, Durham, NC (US);
Andrea L. Ames, Redwood City, CA (US);
Beth Anne M. Collopy, Amesbury, MA (US);
Joseph F. Pesot, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Pierce, Alfred, ME (US);
David C. Steinmetz, Bothell, WA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product and method provides a question and answer service that accepts an initial first question from a user and analyzes the question by a first generation subsystem to generate a first answer. A second generation subsystem of the question and answer service is configured to generate a second question based at least in-part on keywords from the first question and the first answer.