LAT Based Answer Generation Using Anchor Entities and Proximity

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APP PUB NO 20200151607A1
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16743041

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Mechanisms are provided for implementing a proximity based candidate answer pre-processor engine that outputs a sub-set of candidate answers to a question and answer (QA) system. The mechanisms receive a lexical answer type (LAT) and an entity specified in an input natural language question as well as an ontology data structure representing a corpus of natural language content. The mechanisms identify a set of candidate answers having associated nodes in the ontology data structure that are within a predetermined proximity of a node corresponding to the entity, and a sub-set of candidate answers in the set of candidate answers having an entity type corresponding to the LAT. The mechanisms output, to the QA system, the sub-set of candidate answers as candidate answers to the input natural language question for evaluation and selection of a final answer to the input natural language question.

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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 Franklin, US 80 286
Brumfield, Benjamin L Cedar Park, US 18 108
Vernier, Stanley J Grove City, US 75 252

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