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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hiroshi Kanayama, Tokyo, JP;
Risa Kawanaka, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of question answering from multilingual information sources is disclosed. The present invention discloses a method, a computer system and a program product for selecting an information source language of an information source, the method comprising; receiving a question; analyzing the question to obtain a category information of at least one word included in the question; obtaining a word included in the category information as estimated topic or region related to the question; determining a candidate for an information source language using the estimated topic or region; and selecting the information source language and corresponding information sources for retrieving documents to generate an answer of the question.