Patent Document ID: 20150193441
Application ID: 14150272
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for ingesting a document from a corpus of documents for use by a Question and Answer (QA) system, the method comprising: receiving, by the data processing system, a document from a corpus of documents; generating, by the data processing system, a title for the document based on an analysis of content of the document; generating, by the data processing system, a score value for the title based on a measure of a degree to which the title represents the content of the document; storing, by the data processing system, the score value in association with the title as document metadata associated with the document; and outputting, by the data processing system, the document and document metadata to the QA system, wherein the QA system utilizes the document metadata and document to generate a candidate answer to an input question.