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PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING LOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF CANDIDATE ANSWERS

  • US 20120078888A1
  • Filed: 09/22/2011
  • Published: 03/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating answers to questions, comprising:

  • receiving an input query;

    decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries;

    conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries;

    for each of the candidate answers for each of the subqueries, applying a candidate ranking function to determine a ranking for said each of the candidate answers;

    for each of the subqueries, selecting one of the candidate answers to the subquery based on the ranking of said one of the candidate answers; and

    applying a logical synthesis component to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected ones of the candidate answers to the subqueries.

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