Question-answering system
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1. A computer implemented method of operating a question-answering system comprising:
- receiving a first question input into a user interface by a user;
analyzing the first question by a computer device utilizing a corpus of data;
outputting a computer generated first answer to the first question;
outputting a computer generated second question based at least in-part on the first question, wherein the second question is based in-part on the first answer; and
selecting keywords of the first answer by the computer device to at least in-part generate the second question.
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Abstract
A computer program product and method provides a question and answer service that accepts an initial first question from a user and analyzes the question by a first generation subsystem to generate a first answer. A second generation subsystem of the question and answer service is configured to generate a second question based at least in-part on keywords from the first question and the first answer.
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1. A computer implemented method of operating a question-answering system comprising:
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receiving a first question input into a user interface by a user; analyzing the first question by a computer device utilizing a corpus of data; outputting a computer generated first answer to the first question; outputting a computer generated second question based at least in-part on the first question, wherein the second question is based in-part on the first answer; and selecting keywords of the first answer by the computer device to at least in-part generate the second question. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer program product for providing a question and answer service, the computer program product comprising:
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a tangible non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising; receiving a first question from a user and generate a first answer to the question based on an analysis of the first question utilizing a corpus of data; and generating a second question based at least in-part on keywords from the first question and the first answer. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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