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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
William G. Visotski, Lowell, MA (US);
David E. Wilson, Lowell, MA (US);
Robert L. Yates, Arlington, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for identifying commonalities between candidate answers generated by a Question and Answer (QA) system in response to an input question. The mechanisms receive a plurality of candidate answers for an input question from the QA system and identify terms present in the candidate answers. The mechanisms determine relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers and determine a common relationship between a first term and a second term, the common relationship being common amongst at least a subset of the plurality of candidate answers, based on the determined relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers. The mechanisms present the plurality of candidate answers and the common relationship to a user.