System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8417514
APP PUB NO 20120189988A1
SERIAL NO

13438959

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Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document. The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brown, Eric W Fairfield, US 70 4109
Coden, Anni R Bronx, US 18 410
Prager, John M Pomona, US 21 1319
Radev, Dragomir R Ann Arbor, US 1 13
Samn, Valerie New York, US 2 59

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