Patent ID: 9704099
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06N,G06Q,G09B

Claim:
1. A method performed by at least one computer processor, the method comprising: (a) selecting, by the at least one computer processor, a first question instance including first text and a first region definition designed to identify a first region of a data set likely to contain information that may be used to provide an answer to the question represented by the first text, the first region being aligned with a tagged element in the data set; (b) automatically identifying, by the at least one computer processor, before (c) and (e), the first region of the data set, based on the first region definition; (c) providing output, by the at least one computer processor, to a user representing the first question instance; (d) generating, by the at least one computer processor, an answer to the first question instance based on the first region of the data set before (e); (e) receiving, by the at least one computer processor, from the user, feedback before providing to the user output representing the generated answer; (f) determining whether the received user feedback indicates the user relied upon the first region of the data set identified in the first region definition; (g) determining that a frequency of reliance upon the first region of the data set falls below a predetermined threshold; and (h) modifying the first region definition to exclude the first region of the data set from the first region definition.