Building a Domain Knowledge and Term Identity Using Crowd Sourcing
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCorville O. Allen, Albert A. Chung, Andrew R. Freed, Dorian B. Miller
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Abstract
An approach is provided in which a QA system ingests traditional sources, which includes traditional terms, into a domain dictionary. Next, the QA system ingests crowd-based sources that include crowd-based terms and corresponding crowd-based metadata. In turn, the QA system calculates weightings pertaining to the traditional terms based upon the crowd-based metadata. When the QA system receives a question from a requestor that includes question terms, the QA system identifies an answer to the question based on the calculated weightings pertaining to the traditional terms that are relevant to the question terms.
Claims7
A method implemented by an information handling system that includes a memory and a processor, the method comprising:
- ingesting a first set of traditional sources that comprise a plurality of first terms;
- ingesting a second set of crowd-based sources that comprise a plurality of second terms and a plurality of crowd-based metadata;
- calculating one or more weightings pertaining to one or more of the first terms based on the crowd-based metadata;
- receiving a question that includes one or more question terms;
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- identifying an answer to the question based on one or more of the weightings corresponding to one or more of the first terms that are relevant to one or more of the question terms.
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