Patent Document ID: 9626622
Application ID: 14570305

Base Claim:
1. A method implemented by an information handling system that includes a memory and a processor, the method comprising: selecting a question from a post in a threaded discussion; automatically identifying an answer to the selected question from one or more crowd-based sources, wherein the identified answer has a confidence level greater than a threshold; revising the selected question based on a lexical answer type (LAT) of the selected question; building an answer key with the revised selected question and the identified answer; and automatically training a question answering (QA) system using the answer key.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the revising further comprises: revising the selected question based on a focus and the lexical answer type (LAT) of the selected question given a noun, a subject, a verb and a context identified in the selected question.