Patent Document ID: 9626352
Application ID: 14557637

Base Claim:
1. An information handling system comprising: one or more processors; one or more data stores accessible by at least one of the processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; and a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of: analyzing a plurality of posts included in one or more threads of a threaded discussion, wherein the analyzing further comprises: identifying a term in a parent post of the threaded discussion; detecting that an anaphor in a child post of the threaded discussion references the identified term; and resolving the anaphor found in the child post with the identified term; storing the parent post with the identified term and the child post with the resolved anaphor in the memory; and ingesting the parent post with the identified term and the child post with the resolved anaphor into a corpus utilized by a question answering (QA) system.

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Claim 2:
2. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the actions further comprise: identifying one or more referential types corresponding to one or more words included in the parent post; identifying one or more matching anaphora types corresponding to the identified referential types in one or more child posts, wherein the child posts include the child post; detecting the anaphors in the one or more child posts that relate to one or more of the words included in the parent post based upon matching the referential types to the anaphora types; resolving each of the anaphors detected in the child posts with the corresponding words found in the parent post; and associating each of the child posts that include one or more anaphors relating to corresponding words in the parent post to the parent post, wherein the association is accessible by the QA system.