Class-narrowing for type-restricted answer lookups

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15211839

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A mechanism is provided in a data processing system configured with a natural language processing pipeline executing on at least one processor of the data processing system, for class narrowing for answer lookups. The natural language processing pipeline annotates an input question with a verb in the input question and a syntactic relation between the verb and a focus of the question. A class narrowing component of the natural language processing pipeline finds an entry in a verb/type lookup resource corresponding to the verb and the syntactic relation. The entry comprises the verb, the syntactic relation, and a set of classes. Each given class in the set of classes has a corresponding frequency value representing a frequency the given class occurs with the syntactic relation to the verb. The class narrowing component performs class-narrowed type-restricted answer lookup from a topology based on the entry in the verb/type lookup resource to generate a set of candidate answers.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Bishop, Timothy A Minneapolis, US 27 197
Boxwell, Stephen A Columbus, US 80 286
Brumfield, Benjamin L Cedar Park, US 18 108
Vernier, Stanley J Columbus, US 75 252

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