Generating answer variants based on tables of a corpus

    公开(公告)号:US10331684B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US15172216

    申请日:2016-06-03

    摘要: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a candidate answer variant engine. The mechanisms receive an indication of a structured portion of content in a corpus, generate a plurality of groupings of elements of the structured portion of content, and generate, for each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements, and for each element in the grouping of elements, a corresponding grouping vector representation, corresponding to the element. The mechanisms, for each grouping vector representation of each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements perform a similarity measure calculation between the grouping vector representation and a vector representation of an input question, and select an element corresponding to the grouping vector representation for inclusion as a candidate answer variant based on results of the similarity measure calculation. The mechanisms perform question answering operations based on an analysis of one or more candidate answer variants.

    Generating answer variants based on tables of a corpus

    公开(公告)号:US11132370B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-28

    申请号:US16417090

    申请日:2019-05-20

    摘要: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a candidate answer variant engine. The mechanisms receive an indication of a structured portion of content in a corpus, generate a plurality of groupings of elements of the structured portion of content, and generate, for each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements, and for each element in the grouping of elements, a corresponding grouping vector representation, corresponding to the element. The mechanisms, for each grouping vector representation of each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements perform a similarity measure calculation between the grouping vector representation and a vector representation of an input question, and select an element corresponding to the grouping vector representation for inclusion as a candidate answer variant based on results of the similarity measure calculation. The mechanisms perform question answering operations based on an analysis of one or more candidate answer variants.

    Generating ground truth for questions based on data found in structured resources

    公开(公告)号:US10482180B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US15816089

    申请日:2017-11-17

    摘要: Ground truth for a cognitive system is generated from a structured resource such as a table by identifying a subject of the structured resource and field headers. Linguistic analysis is performed on a given header to establish an interrogative context, and a question is generated relating to the subject based on the interrogative context, including an implementation of one or more mathematical operators. The question is generated using a question template, and has a question phrase based on the interrogative context, an operator phrase based on the selected operator, and a keyword phrase based on the subject. An answer to the question is determined by carrying out a computation that applies the selected operator(s) to one or more of the data values, to form a question-and-answer pair that is added to the ground truth. A filtering step is preferably used to ensure that the question-and-answer pair is valid.

    GENERATING GROUND TRUTH FOR QUESTIONS BASED ON DATA FOUND IN STRUCTURED RESOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20190155904A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-23

    申请号:US15816089

    申请日:2017-11-17

    IPC分类号: G06F17/27 G06F17/30 G06F17/24

    摘要: Ground truth for a cognitive system is generated from a structured resource such as a table by identifying a subject of the structured resource and field headers. Linguistic analysis is performed on a given header to establish an interrogative context, and a question is generated relating to the subject based on the interrogative context, including an implementation of one or more mathematical operators. The question is generated using a question template, and has a question phrase based on the interrogative context, an operator phrase based on the selected operator, and a keyword phrase based on the subject. An answer to the question is determined by carrying out a computation that applies the selected operator(s) to one or more of the data values, to form a question-and-answer pair that is added to the ground truth. A filtering step is preferably used to ensure that the question-and-answer pair is valid.