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Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Robert C. Johnson, Jr., Pescadero, CA (US);

Scott M. Lewis, Toronto, CA;

Michael D. Whitley, Durham, NC (US);

Robert L. Yates, Arlington, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are provided, in association with a question and answer system, for generating answers to an input question. An input question is received and processed to generate at least one query. The at least one query is applied to the corpus to generate a set of candidate answers and corresponding selections of evidence portions of the corpus of information providing evidence in support of the at least one candidate answer being a correct answer for the input question. A graphical user interface (GUI) is output comprising a first GUI sub-section comprising the set of candidate answers, and a second GUI sub-section comprising the evidence portions of the corpus. User input modifying at least one of set of candidate answers or the evidence portions of the corpus of information is received via the GUI and an operation of the data processing system is adjusted based on the user input.


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