Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Question-answering system
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Application No.: US15851769Application Date: 2017-12-22
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Publication No.: US10255546B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Mariana Alupului , Andrea L. Ames , Beth Anne M. Collopy , Joseph F. Pesot , Robert Pierce , David C. Steinmetz
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent Richard Wilhelm
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06N3/00 ; G06N99/00

Abstract:
A computer program product and method provides a question and answer service that accepts an initial first question from a user and analyzes the question by a first generation subsystem to generate a first answer. A second generation subsystem of the question and answer service is configured to generate a second question based at least in-part on keywords from the first question and the first answer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180129928A1 QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-05-10
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