公开(公告)号：US10180964B1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US14824654

申请日：2015-08-12

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Steven D. Baker ,  Srinivasan Venkatachary ,  Robert Andrew Brennan ,  Per Bjornsson ,  Yi Liu ,  Nitin Gupta ,  Diego Federici ,  Lingkun Chu

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query determined to be a question query data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the query; for each resource in a top-ranked subset of the resources: identifying a plurality of passage units in the resource; applying a set of passage unit selection criterion to the passage units, each passage unit selection criterion specifying a condition for inclusion of a passage unit in a candidate answer passage, wherein a first subset of passage unit selection criteria applies to structured content and a second subset of passage unit selection criteria applies to unstructured content; and generating, from passage units that satisfy the set of passage unit selection criterion, a set of candidate answer passages.

公开(公告)号：US10783156B1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US15902659

申请日：2018-02-22

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Steven D. Baker ,  Srinivasan Venkatachary ,  Robert Andrew Brennan ,  Per Bjornsson ,  Yi Liu ,  Hadar Shemtov ,  Massimiliano Ciaramita ,  Ioannis Tsochantaridis

IPC: G06F16/00 ,  G06F16/2457 ,  G06F16/2452 ,  G06F16/24

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scoring candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query determined to be a question query that seeks an answer response and data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the query; for a subset of the resources: receiving candidate answer passages; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query term match score that is a measure of similarity of the query terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, an answer term match score that is a measure of similarity of answer terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query dependent score based on the query term match score and the answer term match score; and generating an answer score that is a based on the query dependent score.

公开(公告)号：US11409748B1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US15923385

申请日：2018-03-16

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Nitin Gupta ,  Srinivasan Venkatachary ,  Lingkun Chu ,  Steven D. Baker

IPC: G06F16/2457

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for context scoring adjustments for candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes scoring candidate answer passages. For each candidate answer passage, the system determines a heading vector that describes a path in the heading hierarchy from the root heading to the respective heading to which the candidate answer passage is subordinate; determines a context score based, at least in part, on the heading vector; and adjusts answer score of the candidate answer passage at least in part by the context score to form an adjusted answer score. The system then selects an answer passage from the candidate answer passages based on the adjusted answer scores.

公开(公告)号：US10691746B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US15208345

申请日：2016-07-12

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Eric Steinlauf ,  Grant Dasher ,  Matthew K. Gray ,  Steven D. Baker ,  Namrata U. Godbole ,  Samer Hassan Hassan ,  Ionut Georgescu

IPC: G06F16/58 ,  G06F16/332 ,  G06F16/9538 ,  G06F16/951

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an image with an answer to a question query. A method receiving a first query that is determined to be a question query; generating a second query form the first query; causing a search of a plurality of resources of a first corpus using the second query as input, wherein the first corpus of resources are resources that include images and textual data rendered with the images; receiving data indicating a set of resources determined to be responsive to the second query; causing a search for images in the set of resources; selecting, from the set of images and based in part on the search for images in the first set of resources, an image to be provided with the answer in response to the query; and providing, by the data processing apparatus, and with the answer, the image in response to the first query.

公开(公告)号：US09959315B1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-01

申请号：US14169960

申请日：2014-01-31

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Nitin Gupta ,  Srinivasan Venkatachary ,  Lingkun Chu ,  Steven D. Baker

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30528 ,  G06F17/30675

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for context scoring adjustments for candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes scoring candidate answer passages. For each candidate answer passage, the system determines a heading vector that describes a path in the heading hierarchy from the root heading to the respective heading to which the candidate answer passage is subordinate; determines a context score based, at least in part, on the heading vector; and adjusts answer score of the candidate answer passage at least in part by the context score to form an adjusted answer score. The system then selects an answer passage from the candidate answer passages based on the adjusted answer scores.