Patent Document ID: 9811515
Application ID: 14567258

Base Claim:
1. A method implemented by an information handling system that includes a memory and a processor, the method comprising: analyzing a plurality of posts included in a plurality of threads of one or more threaded discussions, wherein the analysis identifies a plurality of child posts that refer to a parent post selected from the plurality of posts by a user of a user interface; identifying a statement in the parent post, wherein the statement includes a possible answer to a question; analyzing the statement using agreement data found in the plurality of child posts, wherein one or more of the plurality of child posts includes one or more alternative answers to the question; identifying a structural support of each of the one or more alternative answers from one or more of the plurality of posts included in the thread, wherein the identifying further comprises scoring each of the one or more alternative answers; and displaying the parent post, an analysis of the statement in the parent post, and the one or more alternative answers to the user at the user interface, wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the identified structural support and the scoring for each of the one or more alternative answers.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising: analyzing each of the plurality of posts in the plurality of threads, wherein the plurality of posts include the child posts and the parent post; identifying any referential types corresponding to a plurality of words included in each of the posts; identifying any anaphora types corresponding to a plurality of words included in each of the posts; associating each of the plurality of child posts with at least one parent post as a relationship; resolving the anaphora types included in the child posts with at least one of the referential types included in the respective associated parent posts; and building a thread tree corresponding to the threaded discussion, wherein the thread tree includes the plurality of posts, the relationships between posts, and the resolved anaphora types, and wherein the one or more alternative answers are stored in the thread tree.