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Identifying and displaying relationships between candidate answers

A candidate answer, relationship technology, applied in special data processing applications, unstructured text data retrieval, instruments, etc., can solve problems such as information gaps

Active Publication Date: 2015-06-10
IBM CORP
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However, there are numerous information gaps as users try to piece together the information they are able to discover that users consider relevant during their search for information on various topics

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[0017] The illustrative embodiments provide mechanisms for identifying relationships between candidate answers produced by a question answering (QA) system. That is, the illustrative embodiments provide mechanisms for answering the question "Given a set of candidate answers computed by a QA system for a question, what do the candidate answers have in common with each other?" By evaluating and representing items that are common to elements in a set of candidate answers, by evaluating and representing relationships between entities and items within candidate answers that are common to candidate answers, and by referring to common terms and entities and terms The illustrative embodiments answer such questions by retrieving and displaying passages in the database showing associations between candidate answers and their relationships.

[0018] It should be understood that the term "mechanism" as used herein can be any implementation of a function or aspect of the illustrative embod...

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Mechanisms are provided for identifying commonalities between candidate answers generated by a Question and Answer (QA) system in response to an input question. The mechanisms receive a plurality of candidate answers for an input question from the QA system and identify terms present in the candidate answers. The mechanisms determine relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers and determine a common relationship between a first term and a second term, the common relationship being common amongst at least a subset of the plurality of candidate answers, based on the determined relationships between terms in each of the candidate answers. The mechanisms present the plurality of candidate answers and the common relationship to a user.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates generally to an improved data processing apparatus and method, and more particularly to mechanisms for identifying and displaying relationships between candidate answers generated by question answering (QA) systems. Background technique [0002] With the increased use of computing networks, such as the Internet, humans are currently inundated with the vast amount of information they can obtain from various structured and unstructured sources. However, there are numerous information gaps as users attempt to piece together the information they are able to find that the user considers relevant during their search for information on various topics. To aid in such searches, recent research has involved creating question answering (QA) systems that can receive input questions, analyze the input questions, and return results indicating the most likely answers to the input questions. A QA system provides an automated mechanism ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30G06F17/27
CPCG06F16/36G06F16/3334G06F16/3344G06F16/338G06F16/3329
Inventor W·G·维索斯基D·E·威尔森R·L·亚茨
Owner IBM CORP