Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Leveraging contextual information in topic coherent question sequences
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Application No.: US15814012Application Date: 2017-11-15
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Publication No.: US10558689B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Charles E. Beller , Paul J. Chase, Jr. , Michael Drzewucki , Edward G. Katz , Christopher Phipps
- 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
- Agent Richard A. Wilhelm
- Main IPC: G06F16/332
- IPC: G06F16/332 ; G10L15/01 ; G06F17/27 ; G06N20/00 ; G06F16/33 ; G06F16/2452

Abstract:
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for leveraging coherent question sequences is provided. The present invention may include receiving an initiating question. The present invention may include receiving a subsequent question. The present invention may include determining that the received subsequent question is not a rephrasing of the received initiating question. The present invention may also include determining that the received subsequent question is not beginning a new question topic based on determining that the received subsequent question is not a rephrasing of the received initiating question. The present invention may then include propagating a conversational context based on determining that that received subsequent question is not beginning a new question topic. The present invention may include generating and scoring an answer based on the propagated conversational context. The present invention may lastly include outputting the answer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190147098A1 LEVERAGING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION IN TOPIC COHERENT QUESTION SEQUENCES Public/Granted day:2019-05-16
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