63 results about "Factoid" patented technology

An evidence evaluation method and system based on question answering converts a report of analyzed information and / or a model of information into a collection of questions, determines answers for the collection of questions. A fact in the report is marked as being supported if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions support the fact. A fact in the report of analyzed facts is marked as being refuted if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions refute the fact. The method and system also may collect the answers as evidence and add the evidence to the model of information to create an updated model of information. The steps may be repeated using the updated report and updated model.

In order to provide a non-factoid question answering system with improved precision, the question answering system (160) includes: a candidate retrieving unit (222), responsive to a question, extracting answer candidates from a corpus storage (178); a feature vector generating unit (232) for generating features from combinations of a question with each of the answer candidates; SVMs (176) trained to calculate a score of how correct a combination of the question with an answer candidate is, upon receiving the feature vector therefor; and an answer ranker unit (234) outputting the answer candidate with the highest calculated score as the answer. The features are generated on the basis of the results of morphological analysis and parsing of the question, a phrase in the question evaluated as being positive or negative as well as its polarity, and the semantic classes of nouns in the features.

A DeepQA engine is enhanced to provide a digital medical investigation tool which assists a medical professional in researching potential causes of a set of patient conditions, including clues, facts and factoids about the patient. The DeepQA engine provides one or more answers to a natural language question with confidence levels for each answer. If a confidence level falls below a threshold, the enhanced DeepQA engine performs a crowd sourcing operation to gather additional information from one or more domain experts. The domain expert responses are provided to the medical professional, and are learned by the enhanced DeepQA system to provide for better research of similar patient conditions in future queries.

The invention relates to improved solutions for information retrieval, wherein the information is represented by digitized text data. This data is further presumed to be organized in terms (431-438), documents and document corpora, where each document contains at least one term (431-438) and each document corpus contains at least one document. Based on a concept vector (420-424), which conceptually classifies the contents of each document, a term-to-concept vector is generated for each term (431-438) in the document corpus. The term-to-concept vector describes a relationship between the term (431) and each of the concept vectors (420-424). On basis of the term-to-concept vectors for the document corpus, a term-term matrix is generated which describes a term-to-term relationship between all the terms (431-438) in the document corpus. The term-term matrix may then be processed and used for retrieving information from the document corpus, such as the fact that a first term (431) is related to a second term (436).

A game module 12 is added to a home page 11. The game results are fixed with the prize winners on a real time basis. When a game is over, the customer knows immediately whether the customer has won a prize. If the customer has won a prize, the prize is given to the customer on the spot and the customer's name is added to the prize winners' list. Repetitive challenges may increase advertising effect of the home page because the home page would be looked at repeatedly. If the facts of winning the prize are displayed on the applicants' terminals on a real time basis, the applicants would rely on the game. The customers who have won the upper prizes are apt to let their acquaintances know their winning, which would enhance the number of customers who look at the home page.

The present invention provides a dimension table processing apparatus that efficiently derives a dimension hierarchy for a denormalized dimension table. The first information presenting means presents information on a plurality of fact tables included in a multidimensional database to an administrator as first information. The second information presenting means receives a fact table selected by the administrator from among the fact tables related to the first information, and presents information on dimension tables associated with the selected fact table in a star schema to the administrator as second information. The dimension hierarchy deriving means receives a dimension table selected by the administrator from among the dimension tables related to the second information as the one to be processed, calculates a predetermined evaluation value for each column in the dimension table to be processed based on data in each cell belonging to that column, and derives a dimension hierarchy of the columns, which consists of a plurality of hierarchical levels of the respective columns, based on the evaluation values thereof. The third information presenting means presents the dimension hierarchy for the dimension table to be processed derived by the dimension hierarchy deriving means to the administrator as third information. The approval receiving means receives a dimension hierarchy approved by the administrator based on the third information as an approved dimension hierarchy.

The present invention provides attorney terminals which operate using an outline for storing, associating and managing case evidence, case law and work product for a given lawsuit at issue. Accessed through attorney terminals, the outline is structured based on a hierarchical categorization of the lawsuit into the law and fact at issue. Associated with each categorization entry in the hierarchical outline are groupings of case law, case evidence, relevance and draft discovery information for rapid access by the attorney. Each categorization entry in the tailored outline provides instant access to case law via headnotes, treatise selections, seminal cases, and preset searches. The disclosed invention also automatically: 1) tracks the use of Exhibits in a proceeding; 2) generates draft portions of a pretrial order including jury instructions; and 3) generates time-lines for analysis and use during a proceeding. Draft interrogatories, document requests and deposition or trial questions are also provided.

A system and method for classifying a print product description in a print shop vocabulary. Initially, a system of classification having a set of classifications, such as product classes, in a print shop vocabulary is provided in an automated system with classification rules for classifying the product description under a classification. Once the product description is determined, a facts collector in the automated system collects facts concerning classifying the print product. A rules-engine applies the classification rules to the collected facts to classify the product description under at least one classification in accordance with classification rules. The classification(s) under which the product description has been classified is / are then determined. The product description can be classified according to the determined classification(s) as required. A computer program product, when executed by the automated system, causes the automated system to perform the method of classifying the product description in the print shop vocabulary.

The present invention provides a dimension table processing apparatus that efficiently derives a dimension hierarchy for a denormalized dimension table. The first information presenting means presents information on a plurality of fact tables included in a multidimensional database to an administrator as first information. The second information presenting means receives a fact table selected by the administrator from among the fact tables related to the first information, and presents information on dimension tables associated with the selected fact table in a star schema to the administrator as second information. The dimension hierarchy deriving means receives a dimension table selected by the administrator from among the dimension tables related to the second information as the one to be processed, calculates a predetermined evaluation value for each column in the dimension table to be processed based on data in each cell belonging to that column, and derives a dimension hierarchy of the columns, which consists of a plurality of hierarchical levels of the respective columns, based on the evaluation values thereof. The third information presenting means presents the dimension hierarchy for the dimension table to be processed derived by the dimension hierarchy deriving means to the administrator as third information. The approval receiving means receives a dimension hierarchy approved by the administrator based on the third information as an approved dimension hierarchy.

Methods and systems are provided for managing knowledge. Users of a knowledge management (KM) service or system may post questions, provide answers or search for answers via a user interface. For a given question, users may collectively construct and refine an answer hierarchy that may include multiple answer paths or solutions to the same question. To this end, users may add, remove and / or modify nodes of the answer hierarchy. The nodes may be of predefined types such as Step, Fork, and Goto. In addition, users may interact with a particular node and provide or modify content specific to individual nodes of the answer hierarchy such as attachments, questions, comments, or references. Given an answer hierarchy, users may select different answer paths or solutions comprising a subset of nodes in the answer hierarchy, for example, based on user-specific fact patterns or requirements.