公开(公告)号：EP2616974A4

公开(公告)日：2016-03-02

申请号：EP11827454

申请日：2011-09-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： FAN JAMES J ,  FERRUCCI DAVID A ,  GONDEK DAVID C ,  KALYANPUR ADITYA A ,  LALLY ADAM P ,  MURDOCK IV JAMES W ,  ZADROZNY WLODEK W ,  LEVAS ANTHONY T

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G09B7/00

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence "score" or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.