Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lexical answer type confidence estimation and application
- Patent Title (中): 词汇答案类型置信度估计与应用
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Application No.: US13242290Application Date: 2011-09-23
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Publication No.: US08510296B2Publication Date: 2013-08-13
- Inventor: James J. Fan , David A. Ferrucci , David C. Gondek , Aditya A. Kalyanpur , Adam P. Lally , James W. Murdock , Wlodek W. Zadrozny
- Applicant: James J. Fan , David A. Ferrucci , David C. Gondek , Aditya A. Kalyanpur , Adam P. Lally , James W. Murdock , Wlodek W. Zadrozny
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30
Abstract:
A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120078890A1 LEXICAL ANSWER TYPE CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION Public/Granted day:2012-03-29
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