Answering Questions Via a Persona-Based Natural Language Processing (NLP) System
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Abstract
A mechanism is provided, in a question answering (QA) system, for performing persona-based question answering is provided. An identification of a requested persona is received from a user along with a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by the QA system. Responsive to receiving the requested persona, components of the QA system are customized to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona. An answer to the input question is generated from the viewpoint of the requested persona based on the customization of the components of the QA system. The answer to the input question is output in a form representative of the requested persona.
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21 Claims
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11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device implementing a Question Answering (QA) system, causes the computing device to:
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receive an identification of a requested persona from a user; receive a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by the QA system; customize, in response to receiving the requested persona, components of the QA system to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona; generate an answer to the input question from the viewpoint of the requested persona based on the customization of the components of the QA system; and output the answer to the input question in a form representative of the requested persona. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to; receive an identification of a requested persona from a user; receive a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by a Question Answering (QA) system implemented by the apparatus; customize, in response to receiving the requested persona, components of the QA system to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona; generate an answer to the input question from the viewpoint of the requested persona based on the customization of the components of the QA system; and output the answer to the input question in a form representative of the requested persona.
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