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US 2021/0240775 A1Published application
System and method for providing automated and unsupervised inline question answering
AssigneeIntuit Inc.
InventorsChang LIU, Pankaj GUPTA, Homa FOROUGHI
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Abstract
Systems and methods configured to provide automated and unsupervised inline question-answering in an online community.
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A computer implemented method comprising:
- receiving a user question from a device operated by a user;
- searching a community repository for a plurality of community questions similar to the received user question;
- selecting an answer from answers associated with the plurality of community questions based on a similarity between the user question and content of the plurality of community questions;
- and
- outputting a snippet comprising one or more sentences from the selected answer to the device operated by the user.
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A system for providing answers to a user device operating a question-answering user interface, said system comprising:
- a first computing device connected to a community repository through a network connection, the first computing device configured to:
- receive a user question from the user device;
- search the community repository for a plurality of community questions similar to the received user question;
- select an answer from answers associated with the plurality of community questions based on a similarity between the user question and content of the plurality of community questions;
- and
- output a snippet comprising one or more sentences from the selected answer to the user device operating the question-answering user interface.
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