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Apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness and method thereof

US8380713B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 11, 2010
Grant dateFeb 19, 2013
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Expiry dateFeb 24, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/3329
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Provides is an apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness including: an answer indexer that indexes documents of which document trustworthiness satisfying a threshold value among documents included in a document collection and stores it in a knowledge Bases; an answer candidate extractor that extracts answer candidate documents for a user's question from the knowledge Bases; an answer source trustworthiness measurement unit; an answer extraction strategy trustworthiness measurement unit; and a trustworthiness integrator that generates an answer candidate trustworthiness list by ranking the answer candidate documents on the basis of the document trustworthiness, the source trustworthiness, and the extraction strategy trustworthiness of the answer candidate documents.

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