Mary Swift

US Patent:

20190188271, Jun 20, 2019

Filed:

Dec 15, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/844289

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Eun Ha - Armonk NY, US
Chung-Wei Hang - Armonk NY, US
Kazi Hasan - Armonk NY, US
Christopher Munjal Nolan - Acton MA, US
Lin Pan - Armonk NY, US
Sai Prathyusha Peddi - Cary NC, US
Mary Diane Swift - Rochester NY, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

Systems and methods for generating answers to questions. One method includes receiving a question having question terms; identifying candidate answers to the question having answer terms; searching data sources to determine passages including either a question term or an answer term in the candidate answer; scoring the passages for candidate answers using a scoring mechanism, the scoring mechanism computing a first degree of relevance of the passage to the question terms, computing a second degree of relevance of the passage to the answer terms of one of the candidate answers, and determining a score for the passage by combining the first degree of relevance and the second degree of relevance; ranking candidate answers to the question based on the scores associated with the scoring each of the passages for each of the candidate answers; and providing an answer to the question based on ranking of the candidate answers.