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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Christopher S. Alkov, Austin, TX (US);
Suzanne L. Estrada, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Peter F. Haggar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin B. Haverlock, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for performing an operation based on an identification of similar lines of questioning by input question sources. Question information identifying extracted features of an input question and a first source of the input question is obtained. A clustering operation is performed to cluster the input question with one or more other questions of a cluster based on a similarity of the extracted features of the input question to features of the one or more other questions. An operation is performed based on results of the clustering of the input question with the one or more other questions.