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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael A. Barborak, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
James J. Fan, Mountain Lake, NJ (US);
Michael R. Glass, Ossining, NY (US);
Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Adam P. Lally, Cold Spring, NY (US);
James W. Murdock, IV, Millwood, NY (US);
Benjamin P. Segal, Hyde Park, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect, a processing system of a question answering computer system determines a first set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a question. The processing system also determines a second set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a candidate passage including a candidate answer to the question. The processing system matches the first set of relations to the second set of relations. A plurality of scores is determined by the processing system based on the matching. The processing system aggregates the scores to produce an answer score indicative of a level of support that the candidate answer correctly answers the question.