Answer determination for natural language questioning

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8832064
APP PUB NO 20070136246A1
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11319188

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Open-domain question answering is the task of finding a concise answer to a natural language question using a large domain, such as the Internet. The use of a semantic role labeling approach to the extraction of the answers to an open domain factoid (Who/When/What/Where) natural language question that contains a predicate is described. Semantic role labeling identities predicates and semantic argument phrases in the natural language question and the candidate sentences. When searching for an answer to a natural language question, the missing argument in the question is matched using semantic parses of the candidate answers. Such a technique may improve the accuracy of a question answering system and may decrease the length of answers for enabling voice interface to a question answering system.

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  • NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Stenchikova, Svetlana Lake Grove, US 2 105
Tur, Dilek Hakkani Castro Valley, US 1 105
Tur, Gokhan Castro Valley, US 97 4089

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