Training artificial intelligence to use answer passage merging for full sentences responses in a question answering system

• Main Authors: Vernier, Stanley J, Frost, Keith G, Boxwell, Stephen A, Brake, Kyle M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.08.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method trains and utilizes an artificial intelligence (AI) system. The AI system receives a question that has contextual features. The method trains the AI system to identify entries in a corpus that have one or more of the contextual features from the question. The method further trains the AI system to: form a set of answers to the question based on identified contextual entries in the corpus; identify and name an entry in the corpus that has a highest quantity of contextual features that match the contextual features in the question as an initial answer to the question; identify and merge multiple other answers to the question from the corpus; and replace the initial answer with the merged answer in order to create a fully trained AI system. The fully trained AI system is then utilized to answer the question with the merged answer.