Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,819,007, 2014 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In
one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to …

Evidence diffusion among candidate answers during question answering

DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek, AA Kalyanpur… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
Diffusing evidence among candidate answers during ques tion answering may identify a
relationship between a first candidate answer and a second candidate answer, wherein the …

Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

EW Brown, DA Ferrucci, JW Murdock IV - US Patent 8,738,617, 2014 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In
one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to …

Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers

EW Brown, J Chu-Carroll, DA Ferrucci, AP Lally… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
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System and method for domain adaptation in question answering

S Bagchi, DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek, AT Levas… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
This application claims the benefit under 35 USC 119 (e) of US Provisional Application Ser.
No. 61/386,029, filed Sep. 24, 2010. The entire contents and disclosure of the afore …

Providing answers to questions using hypothesis pruning

J Chu-Carroll, DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In
one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a query, conducting a search through one …

Evidence diffusion among candidate answers during question answering

DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek, AA Kalyanpur… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
Diffusing evidence among candidate answers during question answering may identify a
relationship between a first candidate answer and a second candidate answer, wherein the …

Providing answers to questions including assembling answers from multiple document segments

EW Brown, J Chu-Carroll, DA Ferrucci… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and computer program product for gen erating answers
to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying …

Providing question and answers with deferred type evaluation using text with limited structure

PA Duboue, JJ Fan, DA Ferrucci… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A system, method and computer program product for conducting questions and answers
with deferred type evaluation based on any corpus of data. The method includes processing …

Lexical answer type confidence estimation and application

JJ Fan, DA Ferrucci, DC Gondek, AA Kalyanpur… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
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