Patent Document ID: 20140141401
Application ID: 13689866
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized device comprising: a processor; and a user interface operatively connected to said processor, said user interface receiving a question comprising question terms, said processor automatically searching sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to said question, said searching being based on said question terms, and said searching identifying passages that support each of said candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether said candidate answers are correct answers to said question, said processor automatically creating a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature of said scoring features, each said scoring feature-specific matrix comprising a score field for each different combination of said passages and said question terms, each said score field including a score value indicating how each said different combination of said passages and said question terms supports said candidate answers as being a correct answer to said question, and said processor automatically ranking said candidate answers based on each said score value.