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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Laura J. Bennett, Alameda, CA (US);
Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Round Rock, TX (US);
Niyati Parameswaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sridhar Sudarsan, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system includes a question answering system executed by a computer, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is encoded with instructions that when executed cause the processor to provide training for training the question answering system. The training system is configured to receive a first phrase and a second phrase, the first and second phrases being paraphrases of each other, convert the first phrase into a first logical form and the second phrase into a second logical form, generate a phrasal edit that includes a difference between the first logical form and the second logical form, convert the phrasal edit into a disjunctive logical form in two directions, and generate a first plurality of paraphrases of the first and second phrases based on the disjunctive logical form.