公开(公告)号：US20160140958A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-19

申请号：US14945921

申请日：2015-11-19

Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Inventor： Jeong HEO ,  Young Rae KIM ,  Hyun Ki KIM ,  Pum Mo RYU ,  Yong Jin BAE ,  Hyo Jung OH ,  Chung Hee LEE ,  Hyung Jik LEE ,  Soo Jong LIM ,  Joon Ho LIM ,  Myung Gil JANG ,  Mi Ran CHOI

IPC: G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/10 ,  G10L15/193

CPC classification number: G06F17/2785 ,  G06F17/2795 ,  G06F17/289 ,  G06F17/30864

Abstract: A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种自然语言问答系统和方法，并提供了一个释义模块。 自然语言问答系统包括：转换模块，被配置为通过改写用户的问题来产生多个修改的问题; 多个问题回答引擎，被配置为接收每个用户的问题和修改的问题，并且选择与每个用户的问题和修改的问题相对应的候选答案; 以及检测模块，被配置为检测所选择的候选答案中的至少一个作为答案。

公开(公告)号：US20160140187A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-19

申请号：US14737130

申请日：2015-06-11

Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Inventor： Yong Jin BAE ,  Hyun Ki KIM ,  Pum Mo RYU ,  Hyo Jung OH ,  Chung Hee LEE ,  Soo Jong LIM ,  Joon Ho LIM ,  Myung Gil JANG ,  Mi Ran CHOI ,  Jeong HEO

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/27

CPC classification number: G06F17/271 ,  G06F16/3329 ,  G06F16/3332 ,  G06F16/36 ,  G06F17/2785

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for answering a natural language question which show improved information retrieval performance. The system includes an index unit configured to analyze text of previously stored irregular documents and classify and index the irregular documents according to meanings of sentences or paragraphs, a database configured to receive and store the irregular documents indexed according to the meanings and transmitted from the index unit, a retrieval unit configured to extract an index word by semantically analyzing an input question and search the database for documents related to the extracted index word, and a provision unit configured to generate a correct answer to the question by analyzing the documents searched by the retrieval unit and provide the search results and the correct answer.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于回答显示改进的信息检索性能的自然语言问题的系统和方法。 该系统包括：索引单元，被配置为分析先前存储的不规则文档的文本，并根据句子或段落的含义对不规则文档进行分类和索引;数据库，被配置为接收和存储根据含义索引的不规则文档，并从索引发送 单元，检索单元，被配置为通过语义分析输入问题来提取索引词，并在数据库中搜索与所提取的索引词相关的文档;以及提供单元，被配置为通过分析由所提取的索引词搜索的文档来生成对问题的正确答案 检索单元并提供搜索结果和正确答案。