Patent ID: 9495648
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N

Claim Text:
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and a memory comprising instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to train a similar passage cognitive system, the method comprising: receiving a question and answer key for a question answering cognitive system, the question and answer key comprising a list of question and answer specification pairs, wherein each question is a text string and each answer specification references one or more text passages from a corpus of information; using the question and answer key to generate a similar passage map for the similar passage cognitive system, the similar passage map comprising a list of text relation pairs, wherein each text relation pair comprises a sample input text component and a list comprising one or more sample output text components; training a similar passage machine learning model of the similar passage cognitive system using the similar passage map; and sending at least one text input to the similar passage cognitive system operating in accordance with the similar passage machine learning model, and receiving from the similar passage cognitive system a response list of references to text passages from the corpus of information.