Patent Document ID: 9721004
Application ID: 14539268

Base Claim:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device implementing a Question Answering (QA) system, causes the computing device to: receive an identification of a requested persona from a user; receive a natural language question input specifying an input question to be answered by the QA system; customize, in response to receiving the requested persona, components of the QA system to answer questions from a viewpoint of the requested persona; generate 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 output 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 2:
2. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer readable program further causes the computing device to output the answer to the input question in a form representative of the requested persona at least by: synthesizing a synthetic persona corresponding to the requested persona; and implementing the requested persona utilizing the synthetic persona so as to utilize language content and form corresponding to the requested persona.