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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH DEFERRED TYPE EVALUATION

  • US 20090292687A1
  • Filed: 05/23/2008
  • Published: 11/26/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. computer-implemented method of generating answers to questions based on any corpus of data comprising the steps of:

  • receiving an input query; and

    performing an automated query analysis including determining the lexical answer type;

    automatically computing candidate answers to the input query using said corpus of data;

    computing one or more lexical types (LAT) for each candidate answer;

    using an automated scoring function comparing candidate answer lexical types to the query LAT and producing a score for each candidate answer; and

    ,returning one or more answers based on the produced scores for delivery to a user.

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