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Question and answer system providing indications of information gaps

A technology of information gaps and gaps, applied in the field of improved data processing devices, capable of solving problems such as flooded information gaps

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-05-07
IBM CORP
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Yet information gaps abound as users attempt to piece together what they may find relevant during their searches for information on various topics

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[0016] Example embodiments provide mechanisms for providing indications of information gaps in question answering (QA) systems. Example embodiments may be used to notify authors and users of such information gaps so that documents and other information sources used as a basis for the question answering system may be updated as appropriate to address these information gaps. In addition, the mechanisms of the example embodiments can identify information gaps not only with respect to questions posed or entered into the QA system but also other questions that should have answers in the corresponding content source, but do not, and thus are not yet posed to the QA system. Or the entered question identifies information gaps.

[0017] As mentioned above, QA systems provide automated tools for searching large collections of electronic documents or other content sources based on input questions to determine possible answers to the input questions and corresponding confidence measures. ...

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Mechanisms are provided for identifying information gaps in electronic content. These mechanisms receive the electronic content to be analyzed and analyze the electronic content to identify at least one of topics or questions within the electronic content to produce a collection of at least one of topics or questions associated with the electronic content. These mechanisms further compare the collection to the electronic content, and to a corpus of previously analyzed electronic content, to produce a set of information gaps in the electronic content. Moreover, the mechanisms output a notification of the set of information gaps to a user associated with the electronic content.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates generally to an improved data processing apparatus and method, and more particularly to mechanisms for providing indications of information gaps in question answering systems. Background technique [0002] With the increased use of computing networks, such as the Internet, humans are currently overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the amount of information available to them from a variety of structured and unstructured sources. Yet information gaps abound as users attempt to piece together what they may find during a search for information on various topics that they believe is relevant. To aid in such searches, recent research has directed toward generative question answering (QA) systems that can take an input question, analyze it, and return results indicating the most likely answer to the input question. QA systems provide mechanisms for searching large collections of content sources, such as electronic documents, and anal...

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IPC IPC(8): G06N5/04G06F40/237
CPCG06F40/237
Inventor J·H·詹金斯D·C·斯坦梅茨W·W·扎德罗兹尼
Owner IBM CORP
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