Patent ID: 9621601
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer system (QA), for generating answers to an input question, comprising: receiving, in the data processing system, the input question; processing, by the data processing system, the input question to generate at least one query for application to a corpus of information; applying, by the data processing system, the at least one query to the corpus of information to generate a set of candidate answers to the input question and corresponding selections of evidence portions of the corpus of information providing evidence in support of the at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers being a correct answer for the input question; outputting, via a graphical user interface (GUI), the set of candidate answers in a first GUI sub-section, and the evidence portions in a second GUI sub-section, for evaluation by a user; receiving, via the graphical user interface, user input modifying at least one of the set of candidate answers or the evidence portions; and adjusting an operation of the data processing system based on the user input, wherein the user input specifies an action for adding a new candidate answer to the at least one candidate answer, and wherein adjusting the operation of the data processing system based on the user input comprises: adding the new candidate answer to the at least one candidate answer; automatically submitting the new candidate answer to the QA system for evaluation in response to the addition of the new candidate answer; and automatically updating the first GUI sub-section and second GUI sub-section based on results of the evaluation of the new candidate answer by the QA system.