System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question
US8340955B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 28, 2008 |
| Grant date | Dec 25, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/3329
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.
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