Weighted answer terms for scoring answer passages
US10019513B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 12, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 30, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N5/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating answer terms for scoring answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes accessing resource data describing a set of resources, identifying question phrases in the resources, for each identified question phrase in a resource, selecting in the resource a section of text subsequent to the question phrase as an answer, the answer having a plurality of terms, grouping the question phrases into groups of question phrases, and for each group: generating, from the terms of the answers for each question phrase in the group, answer terms and for each answer term, an answer term weight, and storing the answer terms and answer term weights in association with one or more queries.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.