US 2018/0025280 A1Published application

Evaluating Temporal Relevance in Cognitive Operations

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsCharles E. Beller, Paul J. Chase, JR., Richard L. Darden, Edward G. Katz

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Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for evaluating a temporal relevance of a portion of content to a cognitive operation request. A cognitive operation request is received that comprises a portion of input text and the input text is analyzed, by a temporal relevance evaluation engine, to identify a temporal focus of the input text. A corpus of content is processed based on the input portion of text to generate candidate results each of which are processed to identify at least one contextual temporal focus associated with the candidate result. The at least one contextual temporal focus is compared with the temporal focus of the input text and a measure of temporal relevance of the candidate result is generated based on results of the comparison. The cognitive operation is performed based on the measure of temporal relevance.

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Dependent claims

A method, in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions which are executed by the at least one processor to specifically configure the at least one processor to implement a cognitive system comprising a temporal relevance evaluation engine for evaluating a temporal relevance of a portion of content to a cognitive operation request, the method comprising:

receiving, by the cognitive system, a cognitive operation request comprising a portion of input text;
analyzing, by the temporal relevance evaluation engine, the input text to identify a temporal focus of the input text;
processing, by the temporal relevance evaluation engine, a corpus of content based on the input portion of text to generate candidate results;
processing, by the temporal relevance evaluation engine, each candidate result, to identify at least one contextual temporal focus associated with the candidate result;
comparing, by the temporal relevance evaluation engine, the at least one contextual temporal focus with the temporal focus of the input text;
generating, by the temporal relevance evaluation engine, a measure of temporal relevance of the candidate result based on results of the comparison;
and
performing, by the cognitive system, the cognitive operation based on the measure of temporal relevance.

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A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive a cognitive operation request comprising a portion of input text;
analyze the input text to identify a temporal focus of the input text;
process a corpus of content based on the input portion of text to generate candidate results;
process each candidate result, to identify at least one contextual temporal focus associated with the candidate result;
compare the at least one contextual temporal focus with the temporal focus of the input text;
generate a measure of temporal relevance of the candidate result based on results of the comparison;
and
perform the cognitive operation based on the measure of temporal relevance.

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