Patent ID: 11880661
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A question answering system comprising:
a processor, a computer readable memory, one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions executable to:
receive input defining a target answering frequency of the question answering system;
receive a question from a user device;
generate one or more answers to the question;
determine a respective confidence score for each of the one or more answers;
determine which of the one or more answers to return to the user device based on a confidence threshold; and
adjust the confidence threshold based on comparing a highest one of the respective confidence scores to the confidence threshold, wherein the adjusting the confidence threshold is performed in a manner that causes the question answering system to approximate the target answering frequency.