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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER TO A NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION

  • US 20080201132A1
  • Filed: 04/28/2008
  • Published: 08/21/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for selecting answers to natural language questions from a collection of textual documents comprising the steps of:

  • extracting scoring features from a candidate list of passages of possible answers, wherein said scoring feature is a number of words in a candidate answer that are different than words in said natural language question;

    scoring the possible answers using the extracted scoring features and a features scoring function; and

    presenting the best scoring possible answer to the user with context from the passage containing the answer.

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