Patent ID: 9189542
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of evidence profiling, comprising: receiving a candidate answer and supporting pieces of evidence; and generating, by a processor, an evidence profile communicating a degree to which the evidence supports the candidate answer as being correct, wherein the evidence profile provides dimensions of evidence and each dimension may support or refute the candidate answer as being correct, wherein the dimensions of evidence comprise at least taxonomic, geospatial, temporal, source reliability, passage support and popularity dimensions, and the supporting pieces of evidence comprise at least content whose features are grouped into said dimensions of evidence used to generate the evidence profile; presenting one or more candidate answers with associated confidence levels, the candidate answer being one of said one or more candidate answers, said one or more candidate answers having a corresponding evidence profile, wherein a user is enabled to navigate to the evidence profile by selecting said one or more candidate answers, wherein a visualization of the evidence profile presents said selected one or more candidate answers by the dimensions with associated dimension scores, said dimension scores representing degrees to which the supporting pieces of evidence corresponding to the dimensions support said selected one or more candidate answers as being correct, wherein the user is enabled to further navigate to the supporting pieces of evidence used to produce the dimension scores via the visualization.