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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bridget B. Beamon, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Michael D. Whitley, Durham, NC (US);
Robert L. Yates, Arlington, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer to an input question. An input question is received and a set of candidate answers is generated along with, for each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers, a corresponding selection of one or more selected evidence portions from a corpus of information providing evidence in support of the candidate answer being a correct answer for the input question. The candidate answers are ranked based on an application of a justifying passage model (JPM) to the selected evidence portions for each of the candidate answers in the set of candidate answers. The JPM identifies whether a candidate answer is justified by a selected evidence passage corresponding to the candidate answer. A candidate answer is output as the correct answer for the input question based on the ranking of the candidate answers.