Patent ID: 9589049
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method implemented by an information handling system that includes a memory and a processor, the method comprising: receiving a set of supporting text noted by a user in response to the user identifying an error returned by a question answering (QA) system responsive to a question posed by the user, wherein the set of supporting text includes one or more text passages from which a correct answer should have been generated by the QA system; generating one or more candidate anomalies by comparing a context found proximate to an area of one or more of the supporting texts noted by the user to one or more similar contexts found in a corpora of the QA system; generating, by the QA system, one or more scored candidate corrections, wherein each of the scored candidate corrections is based on at least one of the generated candidate anomalies; selecting, by the user, one or more of the scored candidate corrections as a confirmed correction to the error; and applying the one or more confirmed corrections to a corpus utilized by the QA system when answering questions.