Robert L Sheets

US Patent:

20190163745, May 30, 2019

Filed:

Nov 30, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/827016

Inventors:

- ARMONK NY, US
William G. Dubyak - Severna Park MD, US
Palani Sakthi - Palatine IL, US
Robert A. Sheets - Herndon VA, US
Kristen M. Summers - Takoma Park MD, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/28
G09B 7/02
G09B 19/00
G09B 5/02

Abstract:

Dynamic semantic processing of text in a word processing application with engagement of question-answering system. A user provides a text stream to a computer system via an input source. The input text stream includes a first natural language statement. The system determines that the first natural language statement includes a fact-based component expressed in natural language form. The system identifies an initial span and an alternative span of the first natural language component, based on the determining. The system engages a question-answering (QA) system by providing the initial span and the alternative span of the first natural language component to the QA system, and by receiving, in response to the providing, a set of natural language results from the QA system. The system evaluates the initial span and the alternative span of the first natural language component based on the received natural language results.