Patent Document ID: 9489629
Application ID: 14576808

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a question answering system, a case from a user; assigning a first level of user sophistication, of a plurality of levels of user sophistication, to the user; determining a level of evidence sophistication, of a plurality of levels of evidence sophistication, associated with each of a plurality of items of supporting evidence in a corpus of information used to process the case; selecting, by operation of a computer processor, a subset of the plurality of items of supporting evidence based on the determined levels of user sophistication and evidence sophistication; and returning the selected subset to the user as part of a response to the case.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: assigning a level of evidence sophistication to each item of supporting evidence in the corpus based on at least one of: (i) a concept, subject, or topic of one or more passages in the item of supporting evidence and (ii) unstructured text passages in the item of supporting evidence.