Question answering system using multilingual information sources

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10832011
APP PUB NO 20180032511A1
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15729794

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A method of question answering from multilingual information sources is disclosed. The present invention discloses a method, a computer system and a program product for selecting an information source language of an information source, the method includes: receiving a question; analyzing the question to obtain a category information of a word included in the question; obtaining a word included in the category information as estimated topic or region related to the question; determining a candidate for an information source language using the estimated topic or region; and selecting the information source language and corresponding information sources for retrieving documents to generate an answer of the question.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Kanayama, Hiroshi Tokyo, JP 44 540
Kawanaka, Risa Tokyo, JP 9 31

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