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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Adam T. Clark, Mantorville, MN (US);
Jeffrey K. Huebert, Rochester, MN (US);
Aspen L. Payton, Byron, MN (US);
John E. Petri, St. Charles, MN (US);
Richard J. Stevens, Monkton, VT (US);
Kathryn L. Whaley, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A cohort analysis mechanism analyzes cohorts with similar attributes to extrapolate additional knowledge and answer a question in a question answering system. The cohort analysis mechanism identifies cohorts for an entity of the question and extracts relevant data concerning the cohorts. The cohort analysis mechanism aggregates the relevant information for evidence scoring and answer scoring to answer a question posed to the question answering system. The aggregating of the data includes combining and ranking answers from the cohorts, gathering evidence and then answering the question with the gathered evidence.
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