US Patent:
20170213124, Jul 27, 2017
Inventors:
- Armonk NY, US
Andrea L. Ames - Redwood City CA, US
Beth Anne M. Collopy - Amesbury MA, US
Joseph F. Pesot - Cary NC, US
Robert Pierce - Alfred ME, US
David C. Steinmetz - Bothell WA, US
International Classification:
G06N 3/00
G06N 99/00
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
A computer program product and method provides a question and answer service that accepts an initial first question from a user and analyzes the question by a first generation subsystem to generate a first answer. A second generation subsystem of the question and answer service is configured to generate a second question based at least in-part on keywords from the first question and the first answer.