公开(公告)号：CA2812338A1

公开(公告)日：2012-03-29

申请号：CA2812338

申请日：2011-09-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： FAN JAMES J ,  FERRUCCI DAVID A ,  GONDEK DAVID C ,  KALYANPUR ADITYA A ,  LALLY ADAM P ,  MURDOCK JAMES W IV ,  ZADROZNY WLODEK W

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.