Method and system for ranking and summarizing natural language passages
US10255273B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 15, 2017 |
| Grant date | Apr 9, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 15, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N5/022
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to generating a relevance score on a given natural language answer to a natural language query for ranking the answer among other answers for the query, while generating a summary passage and a likely query to the given passage. For instance, multi-layered, recurrent neural networks may be used to encode the query and the passage, along with a multi-layered neural network for information retrieval features, to generate a relevant score for the passage. A multi-layered, recurrent neural network with soft attention and sequence-to-sequence learning task may be used as a decoder to generate a summary passage. A common encoding neural network may be employed to encode the passage for the ranking and the summarizing, in order to present concise and accurate natural language answers to the query.
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