Managing questioning in a question and answer system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCorville O. Allen, Albert A. Chung, Andrew R. Freed, Dorian B. Miller
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Abstract
A system, a method, and a computer program product for managing questioning in a Question and Answering (QA) system are disclosed. An input question received by the QA system is analyzed to determine the set of answer-types. A set of answer-types is determined. Prompting for clarifying data associated with the input question happens. A set of candidate answers of the answer-type is determined. The clarifying data is used to determine the set of candidate answers. At least one candidate answer of the set of candidate answers of the answer-type is provided.
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A computer-implemented method for managing questioning in a Question and Answering (QA) system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the QA system, an input question;
- determining, by analyzing the input question, a set of answer-types which includes a temporally-related answer-type;
- prompting for temporally-related data clarifying the input question;
- determining, using received temporally-related data, a set of candidate answers of the temporally-related answer-type;
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- providing at least one candidate answer of the set of candidate answers of the temporally-related answer-type.
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