SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER TO A NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER TO A NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION

Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which awe manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answ...

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Hauptverfasser: BROWN ERIC W, PRAGER JOHN MARTIN, RADEV DRAGOMIR RADKOV, CODEN ANNI R, SAMN VALERIE
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which awe 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.