Valerie S Samn

US Patent:

8417514, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Apr 4, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/438959

Inventors:

Eric W. Brown - Fairfield CT, US
Anni R. Coden - Bronx NY, US
John M. Prager - Pomona NY, US
Dragomir R. Radev - Ann Arbor MI, US
Valerie Samn - New York NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704 9, 704 1, 704 10, 707706, 707707, 707708

Abstract:

Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are 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.

US Patent:

20080201132, Aug 21, 2008

Filed:

Apr 28, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/110481

Inventors:

Eric W. Brown - New Fairfield CT, US
Anni R. Coden - Bronx NY, US
John Martin Prager - Pomona NY, US
Dragomir Radkov Radev - Ann Arbor MI, US
Valerie Samn - New York NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704 9

Abstract:

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.