Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Images for a question answering system
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Application No.: US14476902Application Date: 2014-09-04
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Publication No.: US09495387B2Publication Date: 2016-11-15
- Inventor: Salil Ahuja , Scott H. Isensee , Scott M. Lewis , William G. O'Keeffe , Cale R. Vardy
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Jay Wahlquist
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
A method for providing content relevant images for an input question to a deep question answering system is disclosed. The method can include formulating, in response to receiving the input question, an answer to the input question. The method can also include identifying, based on the answer to the input question, a set of candidate images from a corpus of information. The set of candidate images may relate to the answer. The method can also include determining, based on a confidence value of the set of candidate images and a designated display specification, a first subset of the set of candidate images to provide in a display area. The method can also include selecting the first subset to be provided in the display area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150278253A1 IMAGES FOR A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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