Patent Document ID: 9721005
Application ID: 15051843

Base Claim:
1. A method, in a question answering (QA) system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions executed by the processor, for performing persona-based question answering, the method comprising: receiving, by the processor, an identification of a requested persona from a user; receiving, by the processor, a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by the QA system; responsive to receiving the requested persona, customizing, by the processor, components of the QA system to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona; generating, by the processor, an answer to the input question from the viewpoint of the requested persona based on the customization of the components of the QA system; and outputting, by the processor, the answer to the input question in a form representative of the requested persona at least by re-formatting the answer utilizing a language style and word choice corresponding to the requested persona.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein customizing the components of the QA system comprises: ingesting, by the QA system, a persona-specific corpus, generated as a sub-corpus from one or more larger size corpora, wherein the persona-specific corpus comprises content of the one or more larger size corpora that is at least one of authored by the requested persona, contains statements attributed to the persona, descriptive of the requested persona, or descriptive of information that would have been known to the requested persona.