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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven D. Baker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivasan Venkatachary, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Andrew Brennan, Sherborn, MA (US);
Per Bjornsson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Liu, San Bruno, CA (US);
Hadar Shemtov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Zurich, CH;
Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Zurich, CH;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scoring candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query determined to be a question query that seeks an answer response and data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the query; for a subset of the resources: receiving candidate answer passages; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query term match score that is a measure of similarity of the query terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, an answer term match score that is a measure of similarity of answer terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query dependent score based on the query term match score and the answer term match score; and generating an answer score that is a based on the query dependent score.