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System and method for domain adaptation in question answering

  • US 9,965,971 B2
  • Filed: 09/15/2015
  • Issued: 05/08/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing adaptation to a question answering system, wherein the question answering system has associated therewith a plurality of trace data and a question-answer set, the method comprising the steps of:

  • submitting a set of questions to the question answering system;

    receiving back from the question answering system a set of answers generated in response to the set of questions, said set of answers obtained based on content of documents;

    comparing the set of answers received back from the question answering system to answers in the question-answer set; and

    generating, based on the comparison and the plurality of trace data, an estimate of headroom per content type, said headroom per content type estimated as a percentage or number of documents lacking the question and answer content, where the question counts as an element of the headroom, the headroom per content type comprising a possible improvement relative to possible addition of new content for the question-answer set;

    wherein the trace data is generated during the generation of the set of answers.

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