Predicting lexical answer types in open domain question and answering (QA) systems

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9015031
APP PUB NO 20130035930A1
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13552260

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In an automated Question Answer (QA) system architecture for automatic open-domain Question Answering, a system, method and computer program product for predicting the Lexical Answer Type (LAT) of a question. The approach is completely unsupervised and is based on a large-scale lexical knowledge base automatically extracted from a Web corpus. This approach for predicting the LAT can be implemented as a specific subtask of a QA process, and/or used for general purpose knowledge acquisition tasks such as frame induction from text.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Ferrucci, David A Yorktown Heights, US 79 4977
Gliozzo, Alfio M New York, US 20 513
Kalyanpur, Aditya A Westwood, US 40 1622

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