Patent ID: 9411878
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: receive an input question concerning an entity; generate a plurality of candidate answers to the input question using a corpus of information; identify a question-side duration value for the entity identified in the input question; identify a policy-side duration value for a policy applied to the to generate each of the plurality of candidate answers; determine a duration similarity weight for each of the plurality of candidate answers based on a similarity between the question-side duration value and the policy-side duration value; apply the duration similarity weight to each of the plurality of candidate answers; rank the plurality of candidate answers based on applying the duration similarity weight to each of the plurality of candidate answers; and output one or more of the candidate answers based on the ranking.