Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient grammatical property alignment for a question answering system
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Application No.: US16657999Application Date: 2019-10-18
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Publication No.: US11238074B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Edward G. Katz , Stephen A. Boxwell , Kristen M. Summers , Charles E. Beller
- 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 Stephanie L. Carusillo
- Main IPC: G06F16/332
- IPC: G06F16/332 ; G06F40/205 ; G06F40/253 ; G06F40/284
Abstract:
A service, in response to receiving a question in a natural language format, identifies one or more selected passages from a corpus that are relevant to a focus of the question from among multiple passages in the corpus. The service aligns one or more answer grammatical properties of one or more answers, selected from the one or more selected passages, to one or more question grammatical properties of the focus of the question. The service returns the one or more answers in response to the question.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210117456A1 EFFICIENT GRAMMATICAL PROPERTY ALIGNMENT FOR A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-04-22
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