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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2015
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong Heo, Daejeon, KR;
Young Rae Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hyun Ki Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Pum Mo Ryu, Daejeon, KR;
Yong Jin Bae, Daejeon, KR;
Hyo Jung Oh, Daejeon, KR;
Chung Hee Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Hyung Jik Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Soo Jong Lim, Daejeon, KR;
Joon Ho Lim, Daejeon, KR;
Myung Gil Jang, Daejeon, KR;
Mi Ran Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.