Patent ID: 11899675
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A machine reading comprehension system, comprising:
processing circuitry; and
one or more storage devices for storing instructions, that when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the machine reading comprehension system to perform a method comprising:
in response to a received query, dividing a document into multiple sections that each comprise a portion of the document;
processing, by the processing circuitry, each section separately to determine a first score that indicates the section provides an answer to the received query;
processing, by the processing circuitry, each section separately to determine a second score that indicates the section provides an answer to the received query;
processing each section in a subset of the processed sections separately to determine a third score that indicates whether the section provides an answer to the received query, wherein each section in the subset of the processed sections is included in the subset of the processed sections based on a ranking of a combination of the first score and the second score, wherein the processing of each section further comprises:
separating a section into sentences;
encoding, by the processing circuitry, each sentence in the section and the received query;
processing, by the processing circuitry, the encoded sentences to determine one or more relevant sentences in the section that are relevant to the encoded query;
for each of the one or more relevant sentences, comparing a relevant sentence to the encoded query to produce the third score; and
determining a predicted answer to the received query based on each third score.